Michel Foucault died in Paris, France on this day in 1984 (aged 57).
“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
―from THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
―from THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.
“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, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception