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It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that people are universal - are the result of some very precise historical changes. All my analyses are against the idea of universal necessities in human existence. They show the arbitrariness of institutions and show which space of freedom we can still enjoy and how many changes can still be made.
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Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.
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Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one place, it is not a resigned immobility; it has the endurance of a movement that will never end and would never promise itself the reward of rest; it does not wrap itself in interiority; all of it falls irremediably outside.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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Michel Foucault
Born:
October 15, 1926
Died:
June 25, 1984
(aged 57)
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Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic.
Known for:
Discipline and Punish (1975)
The History of Sexuality (1976)
Madness and Civilization (1961)
The Order of Things (1966)
The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)
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