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Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social... Wikipedia
Born: October 15, 1926, Poitiers, France
Died: June 25, 1984 (age 57 years), Paris, France
Influenced by: Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Marx, and more
Influenced: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, and more
Education: University of Paris (1961), École normale supérieure (1946–1951), Paris-Sorbonne University (1948), and more
Parents: Anne Malapert and Paul Foucault
Apr 2, 2003 · Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French historian and philosopher, associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements.
Foucault asserts the autonomy of discourse, that language has a power that cannot be reduced to other things, either to the will of a speaking subject, or to ...