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Classroom politics.(book on philosophers' political activity)
Mark Lilla The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. New York Review of Books, 216 pages, $24.95
In 1955, twenty-nine year old Michel Foucault accepted a teaching post in Uppsala, Sweden. Isolated for three years, he began gathering strands of medical texts, seventeenth-century philosophy, intellectual history, and Nietzsche into what would become his first major work, Madness and Civilization. Sixteen years later, now a famous professor, Foucault joined Noam Chomsky in a French television studio for a debate on the upheavals of the day. There, he stated:
When the proletariat takes power, it may be quite possible that the proletariat will exert ...
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