Paul-Michel Foucault (UK: /ˈfuːkoʊ/ FOO-koh, US: /fuːˈkoʊ/ foo-KOH; French: [pɔl miʃɛl fuko]; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French historian of...
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Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a prominent twentieth-century French philosopher, who wrote prolifically. Many of his works were translated into English...
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Léon Foucault to demonstrate Earth's rotation, which has symbolic significance within the novel. Some believe that it refers to Michel Foucault, given...
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Jacques Derrida (section Michel Foucault)
"Diacritics", Volume 39, Number 3 (2009): 77–95. Foucault, Michel, "My Body, This Paper, This Fire," in Michel Foucault, History of Madness, ed. Jean Khalfa, trans...
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In the 1980s, some critics began to take an interest in the work of Michel Foucault. This introduced a political concern about social power-relations into...
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Biopower (category Michel Foucault)
French social theorist Michel Foucault, refers to various means by which modern nation states control their populations. In Foucault's work, it has been used...
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The Chomsky–Foucault debate was a debate about human nature, between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the...
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Postmodern philosophy (section Michel Foucault)
[citation needed] Michel Foucault is often cited as an early postmodernist although he personally rejected that label. Following Nietzsche, Foucault argued that...
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Deviance (sociology) (section Michel Foucault)
does not want as deviant and relentlessly punishes and persecutes. Michel Foucault believed that torture had been phased out from modern society due to...
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Genealogy (philosophy) (redirect from Genealogy (Foucault))
question toward the conditions of their possibility (particularly in Michel Foucault's genealogies). It has been developed as a continuation of the works...
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History of liberalism (section Michel Foucault)
lectures by and an interview with Michel Foucault Chicago: University of Chicago Press (p. 92). (Foucault 1991: 88). (Foucault 1991: 92) (Nadesan 2008: 16)...
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Discourse (section Poststructuralism (Foucault))
continental philosophy, and discourse analysis. Following work by Michel Foucault, these fields view discourse as a system of thought, knowledge, or...
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characterised as post-structuralist include Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard, although many theorists who...
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Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault are often cited as key precursory conceptual contributors to embodiment...
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Heterotopia (space) (category Michel Foucault)
Heterotopia is a concept elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe certain cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow...
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Daniel Defert (category Michel Foucault)
activist. Partner to the late Michel Foucault, Defert co-founded France's first AIDS advocacy group, AIDES, following Foucault's death from complications related...
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Madness and Civilization (redirect from Foucault's history of madness)
Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, 1961) is an examination by Michel Foucault of the evolution of the meaning of madness in the cultures and laws...
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perceived by activists, including Michel Foucault and Guy Hocquenghem, as being discriminatory against gay men. Michel Foucault argued that it is intolerable...
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The History of Sexuality (category Works by Michel Foucault)
sexuality in the Western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive...
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Michel Foucault is a 1989 biography of the French philosopher Michel Foucault by Didier Eribon. It was first published in French by Flammarion, followed...
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Biopolitics (category Michel Foucault)
Biopolitics is a concept popularized by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the mid-20th century. At its core, biopolitics explores how governmental...
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Discipline and Punish (category Works by Michel Foucault)
punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind...
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Louis Althusser, Victor Turner, Jean Oury, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, R. D. Laing, David Cooper, and Pierre Clastres. They...
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Regimes of truth (category Michel Foucault)
a term coined by philosopher Michel Foucault, referring to a discourse that holds certain things to be "truths". Foucault sought to explore how knowledge...
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as a groundbreaking reassessment of Michel Foucault's writings specially on the Iranian revolution. Michel Foucault, on the eve of the victory of the Iranian...
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Melossi, Dario (2006). "Michel Foucault and the Obsolescent State". In Beaulieu, Alain; Gabbard, David (eds.). Michel Foucault and power today: international...
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Philosophy of history (section Michel Foucault)
Collège de France lectures published as Society Must Be Defended, Michel Foucault posits that the victors of a social struggle use their political dominance...
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humanism Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilisation (1961) Michel Foucault, Birth of the Clinic (1963) Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1966) Michel Foucault...
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Sociology of religion (section Michel Foucault)
take for granted the kind of world science has constructed for us. Michel Foucault was a post-structuralist who saw human existence as being dependent...
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predominantly French intellectuals/philosophers such as historian Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and literary...
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