Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who also served as an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.
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Michel Foucault
French historian
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who also served as an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. 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.
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian, one of the most influential and controversial scholars of the post-World War II period.
Michel Foucault was a major figure in two successive waves of 20th century French thought–the structuralist wave of the 1960s and then the poststructuralist ...
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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The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church.
MICHEL FOUCAULT's understanding of power changes between his early work on institutions (Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and ...
MICHEL FOUCAULT seeks throughout his work to make sense of how our contemporary society is structured differently from the society that preceded us. ... As ...
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He held a chair in the history of systems of thought at the ...