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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking . . .

Source: The Concern for Truth, interview in Le Magazine Litt?raire (Paris, May 1984; repr. in Foucault Live, ed. by Sylv?re Lotringer, 1989).
-- Michel Foucault, (Oct 15 1926-1984), English historian, philosopher; He was a cultural historian who wrote the award-winning Madness and Civilization, 1961.

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