Quote by Michel Foucault: 'Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but...'

In 1971, during a televised debate hosted by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders, French philosopher Michel Foucault sat across from linguist Noam Chomsky.

Chomsky argued that human beings have a natural, universal human nature that political systems should help develop.

Foucault disagreed completely.

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