Michel Foucault Quotes - Page 3

• I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

  Michel Foucault

  Siente, Sabe

  Michel Foucault (1988). "Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault", Univ of Massachusetts Press.

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• Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

  Michel Foucault

  Knowledge And Power, Thanks, Economy

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• What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression

  Michel Foucault

  Running, Negative, Needs

  Noam Chomsky Michel Foucault (2006). "El debate Chomsky-Foucault: Sobre la naturaleza humana", The New Press

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• ... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.

  Michel Foucault

  Knowledge And Power, Order, Law

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• The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.

  Michel Foucault

  War, Struggle, Men

  Michel Foucault (1975). “The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception”, Vintage

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• The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

  Michel Foucault

  Discipline, Enlightenment, Liberty

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.222, Vintage

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• Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

  Michel Foucault

  Freedom, Tyrants, Authority

  Michel Foucault (1971). “Madness and Civilization”

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• A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.

  Michel Foucault

  Thinking, Practice, Criticism

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• 'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

  Michel Foucault

  Doors, House, Prison

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

  Michel Foucault

  Errors, Long, Baking

  Michel Foucault (1980). “Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews”, p.144, Cornell University Press

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• The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

  Michel Foucault

  Madness, Language, Reason

  "History of Madness".

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• Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

  Michel Foucault

  Verdad, Ciencia, Errores

  "The History of Sexuality, Volume I: The Will to Knowledge". Book by Michel Foucault, 1978.

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• To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before

  Michel Foucault

  Pensar

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• There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

  Michel Foucault

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

  "Michel Foucault". Book by Didier Eribon translated by Betsy Wind, 1989.

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• Si la represión ha sido realmente el vínculo fundamental entre el poder, el saber y la sexualidad desde la época clásica, es lógico pensar que no podremos liberarnos de ella si no es a un coste considerable.

  Michel Foucault

  Birthday, Power, Age

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.5, Vintage

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• I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

  Michel Foucault

  Libro, Escritura, Finales

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• ¿Sabes cuál es la diferencia entre una ciencia de verdad y una pseudociencia? Una verdadera ciencia reconoce y acepta su propia historia sin sentirse atacada. Cuando le dices a un psiquiatra que su institución mental procede de una casa de lazaros, se enfurece.

  Michel Foucault

  Real, Differences, House

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

  Michel Foucault

  Work, Fall, Men

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.55, Vintage

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• It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time

  Michel Foucault

  Would Be, Hegemony, Matter

  Noam Chomsky Michel Foucault (2006). "El debate Chomsky-Foucault: Sobre la naturaleza humana", The New Press

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• The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

  Michel Foucault

  Political, Soul, Body

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.27, Vintage

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• It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

  Michel Foucault

  Knowledge, Science, Essentials

  Michel Foucault (1987). “Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

  Michel Foucault

  Character, Exercise, Power

  Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.35, MIT Press

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• My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.

  Michel Foucault

  People, Roles, Moments

  Fuente: www.nicklewis.org

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• For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.

  Michel Foucault

  Animal, Men, Political

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• Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. And because this domination is not simply the expression in political terms of economic exploitation, it is its instrument and, to a large extent, the condition which makes it possible; the suppression of the one is achieved through the exhaustive discernment of the other.

  Michel Foucault

  Government, Expression, Class

  Fuente: www.nicklewis.org

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