Michel Foucault was accused of sexually abusing children in Tunisia

Sorman said that today he considers himself “sordid” and “morally dirty” for not exposing the behavior of the then philosopher. “Foucault would not have dared to do that in France,” he said in an interview with the British Sunday Times newspaper, based on what he revealed in his recent book “My shitty dictionary”.

He then drew a parallel between the behavior of the philosopher and the actions of legendary French artists like the painter Paul Gaugin, who allegedly had sex with his models from his youth in Tahiti, and the novelist André Gide, accused of behavior similar in Africa.

Según Sorman, los medios franceses lo sabían y recuerda que en ese viaje hubo varios periodistas que presenciaron los hechos, pero en ese momento a nadie se le ocurrió escribir lo que vieron: “Foucault fue el rey de los filósofos. Fue tratado como un rey in France”.

The charge against Foucault differs in several respects from the baseline, which is typical from the ego as well. The famous defendant, on the one hand, has been dead for a long time, so he cannot defend himself. On the other hand, it was not his former victims who delivered him, but a third person.

An important circumstance for the contextualization and handling of accusations, for example, is that Foucault himself, like many of his French counterparts, fully supported open sexual relations between children and adults.. There was a petition signed in 1977 by big names including Foucault, but also Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet or Louis Aragon, which argued that, if French law considered 13-year-olds with rights in various fields, these should also be extended to sexual and emotional life. This attitude was born from the reformist movement of 68 to reject all the taboos which they considered to be bourgeois.