
“He disdains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries above his own.”
Miscellaneous Works: An Affectate Traveller.
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“He disdains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries above his own.”
Miscellaneous Works: An Affectate Traveller.
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VI, Chapter II, Sec. 1
Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848)
2000s, The Sacred Warrior (2000)
Context: India is Gandhi's country of birth; South Africa his country of adoption. He was both an Indian and a South African citizen. Both countries contributed to his intellectual and moral genius, and he shaped the liberatory movements in both colonial theaters.
He is the archetypal anticolonial revolutionary. His strategy of noncooperation, his assertion that we can be dominated only if we cooperate with our dominators, and his nonviolent resistance inspired anticolonial and antiracist movements internationally in our century.
Source: 1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part II: Years of Prosperity
Vincent Arthur Smith, The Oxford History of India: From the Earliest Times to the End of 1911 (Clarendon Press, 1920), 241-2. as quoted in Spencer, Robert (2018). The history of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 174
Context: The truth is that Foucault knew very little about anything before the seventeenth century and, in the modern world, outside France. His familiarity with the literature and art of any period was negligible. His hostility to psychology made him incompetent to deal with sexuality, his own or anybody else’s. The elevation of Foucault to guru status by American and British academics is a tale that belongs to the history of cults.