„Politik ist die Fortsetzung des Krieges mit anderen Mitteln“
— Michel Foucault
In Verteidigung der Gesellschaft. Vorlesungen am College de France 1975. 76. Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt/Main 2001, 1. Auflage, ISBN 3-518-29185-8
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Michel Foucault
Geburtstag: 15. Oktober 1926
Todesdatum: 25. Juni 1984
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Paul-Michel Foucault [miˈʃɛl fuˈko] war ein französischer Philosoph des Poststrukturalismus, Psychologe, Soziologe und Begründer der Diskursanalyse.
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„Es gibt im Leben Augenblicke, da die Frage, ob man anders denken kann, als man denkt, und auch anders wahrnehmen kann als man sieht, zum Weiterschauen und Weiterdenken unentbehrlich ist.“
— Michel Foucault
Sexualität und Wahrheit. Der Gebrauch der Lüste. Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt/Main 1986, 2. Auflage, ISBN 978-3518283172
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„Man muß wohl auch einer Denktradition entsagen, die von der Vorstellung geleitet ist, daß es Wissen nur dort geben kann, wo die Machtverhältnisse suspendiert sind, daß das Wissen sich nur außerhalb der Befehle, Anforderungen, Interessen der Macht entfalten kann. Vielleicht muß man dem Glauben entsagen, daß die Macht wahnsinnig macht und daß man nur unter Verzicht auf die Macht ein Wissender werden kann.“
— Michel Foucault
Überwachen und Strafen. Die Geburt des Gefängnisses. Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt/Main 1976, ISBN 3-518-27784-7, S. 39
„Die Macht ist nicht etwas, was man erwirbt, wegnimmt, teilt, was man bewahrt oder verliert; die Macht ist etwas, was sich von unzähligen Punkten aus und im Spiel ungleicher und beweglicher Beziehungen vollzieht.“
— Michel Foucault
Sexualität und Wahrheit. Der Wille zum Wissen. Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt/Main 1983, 1. Auflage, ISBN 978-3-518-28316-5, S. 94.
„Die Aufklärung, welche die Freiheiten entdeckt hat, hat auch die Disziplinen erfunden.“
— Michel Foucault
Überwachen und Strafen. Die Geburt des Gefängnisses. Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt/Main 1994, 1. Auflage, ISBN 978-3-518-38771-9, S. 285
„Der Marxismus ruht im Denken des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts wie ein Fisch im Wasser. Das heißt: überall sonst hört er auf zu atmen.“
— Michel Foucault
Die Ordnung der Dinge. Eine Archäologie der Humanwissenschaften. Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt/Main 1989, 8. Auflage, ISBN 978-3-518-27696-9, S. 320.
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„Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.“
— Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought
„[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.“
— Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
„People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.“
— Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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„I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. My field is the history of thought. Man is a thinking being.“
— Michel Foucault
Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault (25 October 1982)
„Meaning was no longer read in an immediate perception, and accordingly objects ceased to speak directly: between the knowledge that animated the figures of objects and the forms they were transformed into, a divide began to appear, opening the way for a symbolism more often associated with the world of dreams.“
— Michel Foucault
Context: Meaning created links so numerous, so rich and involved that only esoteric knowledge could possibly have the necessary key. Objects became so weighed down with attributes, connections and associations that they lost their own original face. Meaning was no longer read in an immediate perception, and accordingly objects ceased to speak directly: between the knowledge that animated the figures of objects and the forms they were transformed into, a divide began to appear, opening the way for a symbolism more often associated with the world of dreams.
Part One: 1. Stultifera Navis
„Unreason is to reason as dazzlement is to daylight.“
— Michel Foucault
Context: To say that madness is dazzlement is to say that the madman sees the day, the same day that rational men see, as both live in the same light, but that when looking at that very light, nothing else and nothing in it, he sees it as nothing but emptiness, night and nothingness. Darkness for him is another way of seeing the day. Which means that in looking at the night and the nothingness of the night, he does not see at all. And that in the belief that he sees, he allows the fantasies of his imagination and the people of his nights to come to him as realities. For that reason, delirium and dazzlement exist in a relation that is the essence of madness, just as truth and clarity, in their fundamental relation, are constitutive of classical reason.
In that sense, the Cartesian progression of doubt is clearly the great exorcism of madness. Descartes closes his eyes and ears the better to see the true light of the essential day, thereby ensuring that he will not suffer the dazzlement of the mad, who open their eyes and only see night, and not seeing at all, believe that they see things when they imagine them. In the uniform clarity of his closed senses, Descartes has broken with all possible fascination, and if he sees, he knows he really sees what he is seeing. Whereas in the madman’s gaze, drunk on the light that is night, images rise up and multiply, beyond any possible self-criticism, since the madman sees them, but irremediably separated from being, since the madman sees nothing.
Unreason is to reason as dazzlement is to daylight.
Part Two: 2. The Transcendence of Delirium
„The soul is the prison of the body“
— Michel Foucault
Context: The soul is the prison of the body.
Discipline and Punish (1977) as translated by Alan Sheridan, p. 30
