Richard Sennett: ‘Big society? It’s to keep the bankers happy … ‘ Interview by Andrew Anthony, The Observer, Sunday 12 February 2012
Q: You were friends with the celebrated and late French intellectual Michel Foucault. What was he like?
RS: He was a great friend to me and his other friends. I know he was very forbidding to the public. You read about all the drugs and the sex, which was part of him, but it’s kind of an external portrait, trying to make him into a Nietzschean man. He was also a very sweet, domestic person, a wonderful cook. He and his boyfriend grew tomatoes in between their marijuana plants.
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