Michel Foucault was a French intellectual who rose to prominence in the heyday of democratic socialism in the 1970s. Though he seemed to have leftist tendencies, he was also committed to being an iconoclastic thinker. This commitment to iconoclasm may have undermined the very politics that he seemed to support. Running through this episode is the idea that a philosopher's thought is shaped but also distorted by the era in which they come to be. Episode 1 of a 3 part series.