Lecture on Nietzsche

pp. 202-223

in: Michel Foucault, Lectures on the will to know and Oedipal knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

"In some lost corner of this universe whose blaze pours forth innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which some intelligent animals invented knowledge. This was the moment of the greatest lie and supreme arrogance of universal history" (1873).¹