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Quotes from The Subject and Power — Michel Foucault

1926–1984 France

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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

The Subject and Power (1982)

All those movements which took place in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and which had the Reformation as their main expression and result should be analyzed as a great crisis of the Western experience of subjectivity and a revolt against the kind of religious and moral power which gave form, during the Middle Ages, to this subjectivity. The need to take a direct part in spiritual life, in the work of salvation, in the truth which lies in the Book—all that was a struggle for a new subjectivity.

The Subject and Power (1982)

All these present struggles revolve around the question: Who are we? They are a refusal of these abstractions, of economic and ideological state violence, which ignore who we are individually, and also a refusal of a scientific or administrative inquisition which determines who one is.

The Subject and Power (1982)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michel Foucault (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.