Michel Foucault as a Heterotopia

Not all weighty humanistic thoughts are worth locating them in the biographical subsoil, on which they grew; and in the case of others, the weave of their intertwinement with the author's life (and the resulting consequences) seems in turn so clear and significant at the same time, that it does not leave anyone indifferent, provoking to deeper reflection upon it.This latter category undoubtedly includes the achievements of one of the most intriguing (due to many co-occurring circumstances) 20th century thinkers-Michel Foucault.He himself, referring to his own work, confesses, "Whenever I tried to do some theoretical work, it was born of the elements of my existence, it always referred to the processes I've seen in my environment.Because it seemed to me that in the things that I see, in the institutions I am dealing with, in my relations to others I notice deep crevices, disruptions and dysfunctions-that's why I decided to take up such work, a kind of autobiographical fragment" (Foucault, 1981, as cited in Eribon, 2005, pp.50-51).The fact that what the author of Madness and Civilization modestly refers to as the autobiographical fragment underwent multiplication over time, absorbing more and more areas of the unusual life, is also confirmed by Didier Eribon skillfully moving around the 1 This title, together with the idea it represents of looking at Michel Foucault from the heterotopic perspective was taken from the paper presented by Andrzej Paweł Wejland, whom I would like to thank for sharing the paper and our inspiring conversations about heterotopicity in Foucault's works.The above-mentioned lecture (titled Michel