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The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault | |
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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. 2.6 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 phi... summary from source:
 Biography of Michel Foucault
785 words, approx. 2.6 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 Po... summary from source:
 Biography of Michel Foucault
475 words, approx. 1.6 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 assumpti...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The History of Sexuality Information
533 words, approx. 2 pages
The History of Sexuality is the title of a three-volume series of books by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault written between 1976 and 1984. Originally published in French, the volumes are individually titled The Will to Knowledge...
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 The Nation Sexuality: an Illustrated History. (book reviews)
10/29/1990: 2,277 words, approx. 8 pages SEXUALITY: An Illustrated History Sexuality, as Sander Gilman frames the subject in the latest of his many books, is a matter of both fact and fantasy. The body is real, "composed of muscle and tissue, of flesh and blood." And yet "our... summary from source:
The Washington Post History, Sexuality and Private Life
12/10/1989: 773 words, approx. 3 pages HIDDEN FROM HISTORY Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past Edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey Jr. New American Library. 579 pp. $24.95 IN BIOLOGY, sex means bringing together two elements necessary for reproduction. The...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Mark Poster
3,254 words, approx. 11 pages
[In The History of Sexuality] Foucault has attempted to redefine completely the question of sexuality by removing it from the paradigm of repression. Instead, sexuality for him must be considered in terms of concepts of knowledge and power. In this manner Foucault places sex in relation to the emergence of the administered society of the twentieth century. He challenges both Marx and Freud by shifting the grounds of the debate: the concepts of labor and repression no longer serve in the critical comprehensi...
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