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«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.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Power
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attributes, complex, endowed, institution, structure, The name
«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
analyses, assumptions, conventional, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, evaluate, evaluated, examine, formation, formations, habitual, institutions, mould, participate, playing field, political institutions, re-examine, shake up
«The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ''social worker'' -judge.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
educator, Judges, normality, social worker, social workers, Society of, The Doctor, The Social, The Teacher, worker
«In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.»
«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.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
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adversary, dominates, exploited, exploiting, exploits, fascism, The Exploited
«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.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Society
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related, related to, strikes
«As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
archaeology, date, invention, nearing, recent
«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.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Age of Reason, classical, considerable, link, repression, sexuality, the Classical
«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... 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.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
against the rules, bursting, carried, expressing, intellectuals, In books, manifesting, once and for all, passionate, passively, resistant, ruled, rule book, rule the world, struggles
«Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
dangers, despotism, entail, entailed, entailing, entails, Freedom of conscience
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