Michel Foucault - Wikipedia
WEBPaul-Michel Foucault (UK: / ˈ f uː k oʊ /, US: / f uː ˈ k oʊ /; French: [pɔl miʃɛl fuko]; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.
Michel Foucault | French Philosopher, Historian & Social Theorist ...
WEBMichel Foucault (born October 15, 1926, Poitiers, France—died June 25, 1984, Paris) was a French philosopher and historian, one of the most influential and controversial scholars of the post-World War II period.
Explainer: the ideas of Foucault - The Conversation
WEBPublished: August 26, 2019 3:59pm EDT. Michel Foucault was one of the most famous thinkers of the late 20th century, achieving celebrity-like status before his untimely death in 1984. His...
Foucault, Michel | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBMichel Foucault was a major figure in two successive waves of 20th century French thought–the structuralist wave of the 1960s and then the poststructuralist wave. By the premature end of his life, Foucault had some claim to be the most prominent living intellectual in France.
Michel Foucault - Philosopher, Postmodernism, Power | Britannica
WEBWhat is their essence? What is the essence of human history? Of humankind? Contrary to so many of his intellectual predecessors, Foucault sought not to answer these traditional and seemingly straightforward questions but to critically examine them and the responses they had inspired.
Michel Foucault - Wikiwand
WEBPaul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of …
Foucault, Michel: Ethics | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBMichel Foucault: Ethics. The French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926-1984) does not understand ethics as moral philosophy, the metaphysical and epistemological investigation of ethical concepts (metaethics) and the investigation of the criteria for evaluating actions (normative ethics), as Anglo-American philosophers do.
Foucault, Michel: Political Thought - Internet Encyclopedia of …
WEBThe work of twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault has increasingly influenced the study of politics. This influence has mainly been via concepts he developed in particular historical studies that have been taken up as analytical tools; “governmentality” and ”biopower” are the most prominent of these.
Michel Foucault - Literary and Critical Theory - Oxford …
WEBJul 26, 2017 · Michel Foucault (b. 15 October 1926–d. 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher whose discipline-straddling work came to be the most widely cited touchstone in the humanities and social sciences by the first decade of the 21st century.
The Order of Things - Wikipedia
WEBThe Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences ( Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a book by French philosopher Michel Foucault.
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