I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing. Michael Gira
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Michel Foucault was a French philosopher. He is best known for his work on the history of sexuality, power, and knowledge. When he was asked by an interviewer if he ever read anything written by Jean-Paul Sartre, he replied that he had not read Sartre’s work because it had been written in French and he read only in French.

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