The intellectual

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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others;

it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine

evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and

thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and

institutions and . . . to participate in the formation of a political will

(where he has his role as citizen to play).

Michel Foucault (1926-84), French philosopher. "The Concern for Truth,"

interview in Le Magazine Littéraire