The 1981 TIME Magazine Profile That Introduced Michel Foucault to America — openculture.com

These days, would we expect to find a profile of a homosexual radical-left philosopher specializing in discipline and punishment in the pages of Time magazine? Maybe, maybe not—and few of us would find out if there were one, given that the magazine seems to have long since ceded its centrality in American culture, falling back on a subscriber base of retirees and dentist offices. But in November 1981, when Time was definitely still TIME, it did indeed run such a profile, and now you can read it in full in PDF form.

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