Did Michel Foucault really say 'The intellectual's role is not to tell others what they must do.'?

Michel Foucault:

The intellectual's role is not to tell others what they must do.

— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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"The individual is a product of power, not a source of it."

"The history of sexuality is not a history of ideas, but a history of practices."

"The analysis of power relations is not about condemning power, but about understanding its mechanisms."

"My work is not to tell people what to do."

"The human body is the site of power."

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Date: 1984

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