Foucault is critical of this "modern" view of knowledge | People have then adapted their behavior to get closer to what these sciences has labeled as "normal" |
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In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys | After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, 1961 |
According to Foucault, "individual" is however a construct created by disciplinary power.
72011 Foucault's conception of freedom | However, according to Foucault the "form" for the subject is in great part already constituted by power, before these self-constituting practices are employed |
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31—63 in Writing and Difference, translated by Alan Bass | Inspired by a correspondence with the surrealist artist , Foucault started to write a book about the artist , but never completed it |
Excused from on medical grounds, he decided to start a doctorate at the in 1951, focusing on the philosophy of psychology, but he relinquished it after only one year in 1952.
18Receiving few reviews, it was largely ignored | It revolved largely around the concept of power, rejecting both Marxist and Freudian theory |
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Later, Foucault admitted that the work was a first draft with certain lack of quality | Most of the courses at Foucault's philosophy department were oriented, although Foucault himself gave courses on Nietzsche, "The end of Metaphysics", and "The Discourse of Sexuality", which were highly popular and over-subscribed |
Freedom is for Foucault a type of "experimentation" with different "transformations".
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