"

All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and l...more

"

Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first ...more

"

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas histor...more

"

The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the same...more

"

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

"

Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversion...more

"

The necessity of reform mustn’t be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise of criticism. Under no circums...more

"

In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fix...more

"

For was this transformation of sex into discourse not governed by the endeavor to expel from reality the forms of sexuality that were not amenable to ...more

"

The nineteenth century and our own have been rather the age of multiplication: a dispersion of sexualities, a strengthening of their disparate forms, ...more

"

Through the various discourses, legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied; sexual irregularity was annexed to mental illness; from chi...more

"

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—...more

"

To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask themselves questions about what man is in...more