Did Michel Foucault really say 'The function of the intellectual is to question the obvious.'?

Michel Foucault:

The function of the intellectual is to question the obvious.

— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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"Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint."

"The ultimate challenge is to resist power without becoming subject to another form of power."

"To be transgressive is to be free."

"We must not think that the power of the state is a monolithic block."

"The task of philosophy is to make visible what is invisible."

Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

Date: 1977

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