Foucault!!

This was, by far, my favorite book of the quarter.  I read it twice, and enjoyed it both times. One of the things that got me thinking the most was the idea of normality and abnormality.  Although I suppose I knew this in the back of my mind, I never thought about how society determines what is normal by first determining what is not normal, and that it needs abnormality for normality to exist. 

I also have conflicting ideas about how Foucault thought that one needed to have a good background in philosophy to understand his work.  While I do think that is is good to have knowledge, even a little bit of knowledge, about everything, I do think that if you read or learn something you are not prepared for, you can misunderstand it and make a whole bunch of mistakes.  Your limited background knowledge could lead you to wildly misinterpret the work, and then you go spouting it off to other people, so then they misunderstand it, and it is a big giant cycle of misinformation.