Quote of the day by Michel Foucault: ‘Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are’ and how every self-help guru got it wrong
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian whose work explored how power, knowledge and social institutions shape human behaviour, identity and society. In 1971, during a televised debate hosted by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders, French philosopher Michel Foucault sat across from linguist Noam Chomsky. Chomsky argued that human beings have a natural, universal human…