Michel Foucault vs. Alice Bailey
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Michel Foucault
1926 – 1984
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself.
"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the …"
Alice Bailey
1880 – 1949
Alice Ann Bailey was a British and American writer. She wrote about 25 books on Theosophy and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. She was born Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchester, England and moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher.
"We are told by physicians and scientists that thousands of cells in the human brain are still dormant and, consequently, that the average human being uses only …"
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