Michel Foucault Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and his nights of privation is his own nature, which will lay bare hell's pitiless truth.

  Michel Foucault

  Dark, Night, Men

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.20, Psychology Press

• In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.

  Michel Foucault

  Distance, Eye, Animal

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.66, Psychology Press

• The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

  Michel Foucault

  Animal, Men, Needs

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.59, Vintage

• For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.

  Michel Foucault

  Animal, Men, Political

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