An interview between Rux Martin and Michel Foucault on October 25, 1982 at the University of Vermont.

Rux Martin: Why did you decide to come to the University of Vermont? 

Foucault: I came to try to explain more precisely to some people what kind of work I am doing, to know what kind of work they are doing, and to establish some permanent relationships. I am not a writer, a philosopher, a great figure of intellectual life: I am a teacher. There is a social phenomenon that troubles me a great deal: Since the 1960s, some teachers are become public men with the same obligations. I don’t want to be a prophet and say, "Please sit down, what I have to say is very important." I have come to discuss our common work. 

Foucault, Michel (1982). "Truth, Power, Self: An Interview with Michel Foucault" in Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault, eds. Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton, Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press.

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