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Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in ord...

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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right p...

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In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of huma...

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The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses...

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Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readines...

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[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what con...

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Michel FoucaultThe History of Sexuality

People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumb...

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Michel FoucaultThe History of Sexuality