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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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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
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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...
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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...
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Biography of Michel Foucault
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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 (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...
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Foucault, Michel (1926–1984) Summary
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Foucault, Michel(1926–1984) Michel Foucault, though trained in philosophy, never considered himself a professional philosopher. Still, his research into the historical formation of truth, power relations, and modes of recognition regarded as...
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Interpreting Foucault. (Michel Foucault)
01/01/1993: 5,008 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...
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Artforum International
The Passion of Michel Foucault.
03/01/1993: 1,348 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 work...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Jean Starobinski
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[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...
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Critical Essay by Roland Barthes
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[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...
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Critical Essay by R. D. Laing
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[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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