‘Research has become the scientific and practical raison d’être of psychology, the social and historical raison d’être of the psychologist. From the moment you become a psychologist, you research. What? What other researchers allow you to research, because you don’t (re)search in order to find, but to research, in order to have researched, to be …
‘Together with war [the death penalty] was for a long time the other form of the right of the sword; it constituted the reply of the sovereign to those who attacked his will, his law, or his person… As soon as power gave itself the function of administering life, its reason for being and the …
Reason of state is not an art of government according to divine, natural, or human laws. It doesn’t have to respect the general order of the world. It’s government in accordance with the state’s strength. It’s government whose aim is to increase this strength within an extensive and competitive framework… Political rationality has grown and …
Editor: I am working on amalgamating my old michel-foucault.com Foucault resources site with Foucault News and am bringing across the ‘quotes of the month’ from the old site as ‘quotes of the week’ here. I have commented briefly on some of these quotations (as well as others) on my own personal writing blog. You can …
