But I also took seminars on Foucault with Arnold Davidson, and that’s when I was hooked. I had the inkling, the hunch, that I could find a deeply original, secular approach to ethics in his work….a ...

Foucault had made his name with his 1960 work on the history of the modern human sciences, The Order of Things. By the 1970s, he was deploying German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche’s method of ...

The Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation ...