This chapter is an interview conducted shortly after the 1981 election of Socialist President Francios Mitterand, published under the titile "Is it really important to think?" To practice criticism demands not only a liberation of thought, but also an intellectual activity that makes conflicts visible through the action of theory. (quote from Intro of the chapter) But the question that is rais...
I was saying just now that philosophy was a way of reflecting on our relationship to truth. It should also be added that it is a way of interrogating ourselves.
Curiosity is seen as furtility. However, I like the word; it suggests something quite different to me. It evokes 'care'; it evokes the care one takes of what exists and what might exist; a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never immobilized before it; a readiness to fine what surrounds us a strange and odd; a certain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and to look at t...
... the important question have, it seems to me, ist not whether a culture without restraints is poissible or even desirable, but whether the systems of constraints in which a society functions leave individuals the liberty to tranform the system. (p. 294) Foucault on homosexua courtship: But in western Christianity homosexuality was banished and therefore had to concentrate all its energy on t...
The work of an intelletual is not to shape others' policial will. It is, through the analysis he carries out in his own filed, to question over and over agian what is postulated as self-evident. to disturb people's mental habit. the way they do and think things, to dissipate what is familiar and accepted, to reexamine rule and institutions and ont he basis of this reproblematization (in which h...
I will call the subjectivization the procedure by which one obtains the consitution of a subject, or more precisely, of a subjectivity which is of course only one of the given possibilities, of organisation of a self consciousness. p. 253 what was missing in clasic antiquity was the problematization of the constitution of the self as subject.
This has nothing to do with a code permitted or foridden actions, but in a whole techinique for analyzing and diagonising thought, its origins, its qualities, its dangers, its potential for temptation and all the dark forces that can lurk beind the mask it may assume. p. 239 [Foucault analysed the Cassian's examination on fornication and his statement on how to avoid fornication. Upon the measu...
Psychiatry immediatly perceived itself as a permanent funciton of social order and made use of the asylums for two purposes: first, to treat the ost obvious, the most embarassing cases and, at the same time. to provide a sort of garantee, an image of scientificity, by making the place of confinement look like a hospital. Psychiatrists are the functionaries of social order...have function in pub...
[sexuality as a discourse]: The 'clarification' of sexuality occured not only in discussions but also in the reality of instituions and practices. ... the numerous, strict prohibitions exist. But they are part of a complex economy along with incitements, manifestations, and evaluations. [about MF's works] My aim is not to write the social history of a prohibition, but the political history of t...
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