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If you do so, I recommend keeping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Views_on_underage_sex_and_pedophilia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucau

• southerntofu 5y ago
  Hello, that's a good point! We should always point out pedophilia where it's hiding. However, from previous readings and from following the linked sources of that Wikipedia article, i don't think that Foucault was a pedophile. He did (like many other thinkers of the time) sign a petition defending someone who didn't deserve it, but it's easy to judge in retrospect as the precise context of the case was not publicly known at the time of the petition. But nowhere could i read him arguing for pedophilia or suggesting he himself engaged in such abhorrent behavior.
  • FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
    Here is a not-terribly-biased source: https://theoryreader.org/2021/03/30/french-philosopher-michel-foucault-abused-boys-in-tunisia/ https://theoryreader.org/2021/03/30/french-philosopher-miche... Here is a more conservative one (yet still, the essay is very good), which also brings up how he knowingly spread HIV to young men in San Francisco: https://newcriterion.com/issues/1993/3/the-perversions-of-m-foucault https://newcriterion.com/issues/1993/3/the-perversions-of-m-...