It happened in 1975, when Michel Foucault spent a weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade. Foucault, one of the brightest stars of 20th-century philosophy at the height of his fame, gave a lecture to college graduate students and then agreed to embark on one of the most memorable journeys of his life. Led by Wade and his friend, Foucault experimented with psychotropic substances for the first time; by morning he was crying and declaring that he had learned the truth. Foucault in Death Valley is the story of that long weekend. Engaging and humorous prose immerses the reader in the subversive circles of Claremont's intelligentsia: parties in Wade's bungalow, rich dialogues between Foucault and his disciples in a Taoist utopia in the Los Angeles woods; and, of course, the legendary trip to Death Valley. Between the search for higher consciousness and the pleasures of bacchanalia, this book tells the story of a young man's blossoming friendship with one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. The book's publishing layout is preserved in PDF A4 format.