Reckoning with Foucaults alleged sexual abuse of boys in Tunisia | Racism
“Tunisia, for me, represented in some ways the chance to reinsert myself in the political debate. It wasn’t May of ’68 in France that changed me; it was March of ’68, in a third-world country.” This is how Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, described his time in Tunisia, a country that welcomed him and offered him his first academic teaching position at the University of Tunis.
Foucault, the public figure and famous theorist of power and sexuality, was indebted to Tunisia for his early transformative experiences.
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