Did Michel Foucault really say 'We should not try to understand power, but rather to understand how power works.'?

Michel Foucault:

We should not try to understand power, but rather to understand how power works.

— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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

"The history of sexuality is the history of the body."

"The greatest danger for me is to be bored."

"The prison is the only place where the law is completely and openly violated."

"The madman is the man who has lost everything but himself."

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction

Date: 1976

Strange & Unusual

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