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Michel Foucault Quotes

Michel Foucault quotes about knowledge

French Historian October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984

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But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and... Michel Foucault
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it. Michel Foucault
There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations Michel Foucault
It is not the activity of the subject of knowledge that produces a corpus of knowledge, useful or resistant to power, but power-knowledge, the processes and struggles that transverse it and of which it is made up, that determines the forms and possible domains of knowledge. Michel Foucault
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. Michel Foucault
In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting."
Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against -..."
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting."
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting. Michel Foucault

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