urgent by the sacrifice of truth, reason and wisdom. any delay or barrier that arises between being and unreason is intolerable : ‘ i would rather be, and even be an impertinent reasoner, than not be at all. ’ 3 4 6 foucault misses one vital mark - - that nietzsche pre figured the realtionship one should have to power structures - - three metamorphoses of the osul. value structures should not affect individual value - - public opinion private laziness, systemizers, metaphysicians, scientists, not just psychologists and doctors, but philosophers as well, and espectially historians. the one individual who does not appeal to public opionion - - - schopenhaur on genius the one underlooked madman in foucault : the genius links between madness and genius descartes, clocks - - the body, and dropsy “ it will perhaps be said here that the cause of their deceptiveness is that their nature is corrupt, but that does not remove the difficulty, because a sick man is none the less truly god ’ s creature than he who is in health ; and it is therefore as repugna nt to god ’ s goodness for the one to have a deceitfu l nature as it is for the other. and as a clock composed of wheels and counter - weights no less exactly observes the laws of nature when it is badly made, and does not show the time properly, than when it entirely satisfies the wis 