Comments on: Happy Birthday, Michel Foucault http://blog.cwillse.net/2008/10/15/happy-birthday-michel-foucault/ on the war between the pitiful teachers and the splendid kids Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Restless Things » I’ve Read It In Books http://blog.cwillse.net/2008/10/15/happy-birthday-michel-foucault/comment-page-1/#comment-3877 Restless Things » I’ve Read It In Books Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:30:09 +0000 http://blog.cwillse.net/?p=81#comment-3877 [...] Michel Foucault There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ”politicians” think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas… that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think. [...] [...] Michel Foucault There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ”politicians” think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas… that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think. [...]

]]> By: Craig http://blog.cwillse.net/2008/10/15/happy-birthday-michel-foucault/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Craig Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:12:13 +0000 http://blog.cwillse.net/?p=81#comment-428 JP!!!!!!!!! I can't tell you how many half-finished letters I have to you scattered throughout my desk. Thank you for finding me here, and for sharing your blog. Maybe blogfriends is the new pen-pals? JP!!!!!!!!! I can’t tell you how many half-finished letters I have to you scattered throughout my desk. Thank you for finding me here, and for sharing your blog. Maybe blogfriends is the new pen-pals?

]]> By: jp http://blog.cwillse.net/2008/10/15/happy-birthday-michel-foucault/comment-page-1/#comment-427 jp Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:09:09 +0000 http://blog.cwillse.net/?p=81#comment-427 hey dude i am over here: badtexas.blogspot.com. remember me? it's jp hey dude

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jp

]]> By: Foucault’s birthday « Foucault blog http://blog.cwillse.net/2008/10/15/happy-birthday-michel-foucault/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Foucault’s birthday « Foucault blog Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:49:37 +0000 http://blog.cwillse.net/?p=81#comment-426 [...] Skinny Malinky sez: It is hard not to regret all the pages he never got to write, but I also think his early departure [...] [...] Skinny Malinky sez: It is hard not to regret all the pages he never got to write, but I also think his early departure [...]

]]> By: timothy http://blog.cwillse.net/2008/10/15/happy-birthday-michel-foucault/comment-page-1/#comment-425 timothy Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:19 +0000 http://blog.cwillse.net/?p=81#comment-425 wow. what a beautiful, powerful quote. wow. what a beautiful, powerful quote.

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