On the Shelf The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution By Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora Verso: 256 pages, $27 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora’s new book, “The Last Man Takes LSD,” focuses on Foucault’s …
In the spring of 1975, Michel Foucault was set to lay claim to being the last great French intellectual of the twentieth century. While many others would later "drop acid," as personal "trips" of this kind were called, their cultural zenith was the late 1960s, and, in this sense, Foucault was the "last man" of intellectual note to take LSD …
