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Michel Foucault

Born

in Poitiers, France

June 15, 1926

Died

June 25, 1984

Website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/

Genre

Philosophy, History, Social Sciences

Influences

Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gaston Bachelard, Roland Barthe ...more

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Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," but before he was Professor at University of Tunis, Tunisia, and then Professor at University Paris VIII. He lectured at several different Universities over the world as at the University at Buffalo, the University of California, Berkeley and University of São Paulo, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. His writings on power, knowledge, and discourse have been widely i ...more

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	Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.23 avg rating — 31,487 ratings — published 1975 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction 4.03 avg rating — 22,274 ratings — published 1976 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason 4.09 avg rating — 12,835 ratings — published 1961 — 135 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences 4.12 avg rating — 8,906 ratings — published 1966 — 116 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 6,963 ratings — published 1969 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley (Translator), Zlatko Wurzberg (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 4,019 ratings — published 1984 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 by Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon (Editor/Translator), Leo Marshall (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 2,806 ratings — published 1977 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault, David Macey (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 2,611 ratings — published 1992 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is Not a Pipe by Michel Foucault, James Harkness (Translator), Michel Foucault 3.85 avg rating — 2,879 ratings — published 1968 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 2,497 ratings — published 1984 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents (69 books)
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The History of Sexuality (5 books)
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Cours au Collège de France/Lectures at the Collège de France (13 books)
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Essential Works of Foucault (1954-1984) (3 books)
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The Government of the Self and Others (2 books)
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4.42 avg rating — 556 ratings

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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
― Michel Foucault

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“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

tags: activism, leftism, power, resistance

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