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  <name><![CDATA[Michel Foucault]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Michel Foucault's student years seem to have been psychologically tormented, but were intellectually brilliant. He became academically established during the 1960s, when he held a series of positions at French universities, before his election in 1969 to the ultra-prestigious Collège de France, where he was Professor of the History of Systems of Thought until his death. From the 1970s on, Foucault was very active politically. He was a founder of the Groupe d'information sur les prisons and often protested on behalf of homosexuals and other marginalized groups. He frequently lectured outside France, particularly in the United States, and in 1983 had agreed to teach annually at the University of California at Berkeley. An early victim of AIDS, Foucault died in Paris on June 25, 1984.

It can be difficult to think of Foucault as a philosopher. His academic formation was in psychology and its history as much as in philosophy, his books were mostly histories of medical and social sciences, his passions were literary and political. Nonetheless, almost all of Foucault's works can be fruitfully read as philosophical in either or both of two ways: as a carrying out of philosophy's traditional critical project in a new (historical) manner; and as a critical engagement with the thought of traditional philosophers]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Poitiers</hometown>  <born_at>06/15/1926</born_at>  <died_at>06/25/1984</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (The History of Sexuality, #1)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Hurley]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Foucault]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews &amp; Other Writings 1972-77]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Foucault]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[A.M. Sheridan Smith]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The History of Sexuality: The Use of Pleasure (The History of Sexuality, #2)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Hurley]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Foucault Reader]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Foucault]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[This Is Not a Pipe (Quantum Books)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[René Magritte]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Harkness]]></name>
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