As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.Michel Foucault
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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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 . . .
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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.
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Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
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