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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 ...
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Apr 2, 2003 · Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French historian and philosopher, associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements.
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: Gilles Deleuze, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, 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
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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 ...
Mar 4, 2024 · Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian, one of the most influential and controversial scholars of the post-World War II ...
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Ethics, Foucault says, is the form that freedom takes when it is informed by reflection, and by this he means that freedom consists in reflectively informed ...
Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences and the prison system, as well as ...
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a professor of the history of ideas in Paris. And what a time to be in Paris! A time to upend convention.
Foucault, by contrast, argues that one should seek to reconstitute not large "periods" or "centuries" but "phenomena of rupture, of discontinuity" (4). The ...
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