I have been working on a paper about some of the high-level philosophical thoughts of Michel Foucault and Herbert Marcuse. Foucault’s concept of discipline and
punishment, in light of power residing within a judge of normality, and Marcuse’s work of repressive tolerance and how tolerance often represses diversity rather than increases and supports it.

Both of these thinkers have struck me recently, and I am now just trying to understand them enough to be able to explain their contributions. I have read some of both of their works, and will have to read and re-read them more, since on the surface
they are both easy, yet their words in fact challenge much of our contemporary  society. 

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