Historian of Systems of Thought
Michel Foucault
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A French philosopher and historian who studied how prisons, clinics and the human sciences shape what counts as normal.
Key work: Discipline and Punish (1975)
“The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Power does not only forbid; it also produces.
Ask who decides what counts as normal.
Being watched can teach us to watch ourselves.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On the climb
Who Decides What Is Normal?Power That Produces
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