The Politics of Michel Foucault

My concern here is not primarily with Michel Foucault’s political positions, the statements he has made, the articles he has written, his response to “events”—May ’68, the prison revolts of the early ’70s, the Iranian revolution, and so on. Though he insists that he doesn’t have a political position and doesn’t want to be situated on the chessboard of available positions(he doesn’t play chess, or any other game whose rules the rest of us migh...