Philosopher · Twentieth century · France
Michel Foucault
1926–1984
French thinker who studied how power works through prisons, clinics, and the categories of knowledge itself. Discipline and Punish of 1975 showed the modern soul as a product of surveillance. He lived 1926 to 1984.
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- Born
- 1926, Poitiers, France.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Michel Foucault
- Died
- 1984, Paris, of AIDS related illness.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Michel Foucault
- School
- Post structuralism; histories of systems of thought.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Michel Foucault
- Known for
- Power knowledge, the panopticon, Madness and Civilization, and the History of Sexuality.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Michel Foucault
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