Michel Foucault

Power structures, postmodernism

Contemporary influential 151 sayings

Sayings by Michel Foucault

The question is not to know what one is, but what one is no longer.

1969 — The Archaeology of Knowledge
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The most important thing for an intellectual is to be able to change his mind.

1984 — Interview
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The body is a battlefield.

1975 — Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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The work of the intellectual is not to sculpt the beautiful soul, but to tear away the masks of ignorance.

1977 — Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
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The history of sexuality is not a history of ideas, but a history of practices.

1976 — The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
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The care of the self is not a moral attitude but a way of life.

1984 — The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self
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The human sciences are not sciences, but technologies of power.

1966 — The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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The most dangerous moment for a philosophy is when it becomes a dogma.

1984 — Interview
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The prison is a factory of delinquents.

1975 — Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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The function of the intellectual is to question the obvious.

1977 — Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
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The body is a political space.

1975 — Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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