Did Michel Foucault really say 'The problem is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are.'?

Michel Foucault:

The problem is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are.

— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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Often attributed, a call for critical self-reflection and transformation.

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