Foucault, Michel
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 h...
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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...
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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 histor...
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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 cou...
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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 idiosyn...
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Michel Foucault is a cultural theorist whose impact has been immense across many disciplines within the social sciences and humanities. Madness, sexuality, the history of medicine, the nature of autho...
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Critical Essay by Roland Barthes
[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 f...
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Critical Essay by Flint Schier
It's a pipe, a palpable pipe: not a painterly pipe, not an abstract pipe. Lord knows, it's not an Expressionist pipe; it isn't even a Freudian pipe...
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Critical Essay by R. D. Laing
[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...
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Critical Essay by Maurice Cranston
Michel Foucault has for some years been the most prominent French practitioner of the history of ideas….
Foucault, who is in his forties, has always wante...
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Critical Essay by Jean Starobinski
[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 1...
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Foucault, Michel
Foucault, Michel (1926–1984)
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Critical Essay by Roland Barthes
