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  • The Paris Review

    “What the Foucault?” and Other After-Dinner Musings

    by Marshall Sahlins Feb 05, 2018 2 minutes

    Michel Foucault

    Twenty-five years ago, Marshall Sahlins, professor of anthropology emeritus at the University of Chicago, devised some bons mots to deliver after a dinner at the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain. They were soon collected and published in a book called What the Foucault?, now out in its updated fifth edition. A selection of entries appears below:

    Some Laws of Civilization

    First law

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