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Michel Foucault
French
Historian
About the author
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#Time
#Work
#Art
#Truth
#Madness
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#Life
#Art
#Society
#Fact
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#Love
#Power
#Desire
#Behavior
#Fascism
#Causes
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#Work
#Society
#Prison
#Discipline
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#Strength
#Power
#Society
#Name
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#Work
#Society
#Question
#Justice
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#Power
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#Will
#Reason
#Power
#Age
#Knowledge
#Sexuality
#Repression
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#Freedom
#Authority
#Conscience
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#End
#Thought
#Man
#Invention
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Michel Foucault,
French
Historian
#End
#Thought
#Man
#Invention