Article: The Passion of Michel Foucault.

Of all the intellectual projects that have come to strange life in the last thirty years, and there have been many, none is more profoundly enigmatic than Michel Foucault's. Before his death from AIDS, in 1984, the French philosopher created a body of work fundamental to contemporary thought. His works summoned up a dream world of triumphant madness, glorious violence, and nameless moral transgressions too intense for reason to comprehend. A disciple of Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, and the Marquis de Sade, obsessed with extremity in every form--artistic, ethical, sexual, criminal--Foucault epitomized the dark, dangerous philosopher of our cryptic modernity.

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