Day: October 9, 2019

[W]hat makes a human monster a monster is not just its exceptionality relative to the species form; it is the disturbance it brings to juridical regularities. The human monster combines the impossible and the forbidden. Michel Foucault, “The Abnormals” from Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, 51 (via weil-weil)

And what of the Enlightenment itself? Here we may draw on the incisive analysis of Michel Foucault in his 1978 lecture ‘What is Enlightenment?’ As Foucault pointed out, the Enlightenment, ‘as a set of political, economic, social, institutional, and cultural events on which we still depend in large part, constitutes a privileged domain for analysis.’…

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