Caesar's Tear; or, Paedagogia Interruptus: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Neoliberal University

Abstract

Much of the interest in the one-time assistant professor of History at the Claremont Graduate School Simeon Wade’s memoir Foucault in California (2019)—first published two years after Wade’s death, but originally copyrighted in 1990—arises from Wade’s narration of the journey he, along with his partner the musician Michael Stoneman and the celebrated French intellectual Michel Foucault, took in the spring of 1975 to California’s Death Valley.1F2 There, the trio dropped acid, an event that Foucault would later inform Wade had “profoundly changed his life and his work