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| Name: |
Michel Foucault | | Birth Date: |
October 15, 1926 | | Death Date: |
June 25, 1984 | | Place of Birth: |
Pottiers, France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
philosopher, critic, historian, author |
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 Biography of Michel Foucault
792 words, approx. 3 pages
 Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century French philosopher who produced a set of works that challenged the philosophical, historical, and sociological underpinnings of Western Civilization. An idiosyncratic thinker who has been compared to the German... summary from source:
 Biography of Michel Foucault
785 words, approx. 3 pages
The French philosopher, critic, and historian Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was an original and creative thinker who made contributions to historiography and to understanding the forces that make history. Michel Foucault was born on October 15, 1926, in... summary from source:
 Biography of Michel Foucault
475 words, approx. 2 pages
Michel Foucault is remembered as a thinker who tried to show that the basic ideas which people normally believe to be permanent truths about human nature and society actually change throughout the course of history. He regularly tested long-held...
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 Michel Foucault Quotes
2,711 words, approx. 9 pages
Michel Foucault ( 15 October 1926 - 25 June 1984 ), French philosopher and historian , professor at the Collège de France (Histoire des systèmes de pensée) from 1970 until his death in 1984, revolutionized the academic study of the history of...
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 Foucault, Michel
2,828 words, approx. 9 pages(born October 15, 1926, Poitiers, France—died June 25, 1984, Paris) French philosopher and historian, one of the most influential and controversial scholars of the post-World War II period. Education and career The son and grandson of a... summary from source:
 Foucault, Michel Summary
1,275 words, approx. 4 pagesMichel Foucault (1926–1984), who was born in Poitiers, France on October 15 and died in Paris of AIDS on June 25, was a controversial philosopher whose interdisciplinary work has important if indirect implications for science, technology, and... summary from source:
 Foucault, Michel : Topics in Social Science
832 words, approx. 3 pagesMichel Foucault, the French philosopher, was successively a university teacher, professor at Clermont-Ferrand, Paris-Vincennes, and from 1970, professor of the history of systems of thought at the College de France. At first sight—and on account... summary from source:
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 Papers on Language & Literature Interpreting Foucault. (Michel Foucault)
01/01/1993: 5,009 words, approx. 17 pages Criticisms of Michel Foucault are based not on an adequate understanding of his writings and philosophy but rather a perception of his pessimism, making his works incomprehensible to the critics. However, supporters of Foucault see his works as ground breaking in setting the postmodern... summary from source:
Artforum International The Passion of Michel Foucault.
03/01/1993: 1,350 words, approx. 5 pages Of all the intellectual projects that have come to strange life in the last thirty years, and there have been many, none is more profoundly enigmatic than Michel Foucault's. Before his death from AIDS, in 1984, the French philosopher created a body of...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jean Starobinski
2,318 words, approx. 8 pages
[The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception] is a description of the changes in the language of medicine, particularly French medicine, between 1794 and 1820. It is therefore in the first place a work of history, concerned with a specific problem during a specific period. But it is also an experiment in a new way of writing the history of science, a testing ground for a radically redefined historical epistemology and methodology. Hence the double appeal of this book, which will be read no... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Roland Barthes
2,007 words, approx. 7 pages
[The collection from which this excerpt is taken was originally published in 1964 under the title Essais critiques.] [In Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, Foucault] has not written the history of madness, as he says, in a style of positivity: from the start he has refused to consider madness as a nosographic reality which has always existed and to which the scientific approach has merely varied from century to century. Indeed Foucault never defines madnes... summary from source:
Critical Essay by R. D. Laing
949 words, approx. 3 pages
[Madness and Civilization] is a work of such distinction that it takes some time to accustom one's self to its sustained intensity and verbal momentum, before one can begin to come to terms with the measure of its truth, as total picture or in terms of its constituent elements. Foucault's overall plan is to excavate the sane perception of madness (la folie) of the 17th and 18th century in Europe, and France in particular. He lays before us the archaeology, as he puts it, of the broken dialogue...
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