Michel Foucault - Wikipedia
WEBPaul-Michel Foucault ( UK: / ˈfuːkoʊ /, US: / fuːˈkoʊ /; [9] French: [pɔl miʃɛl fuko]; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who also served as an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.
Michel Foucault - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBMichel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French historian and philosopher, associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. He has had strong influence not only in philosophy but also in a wide range of humanistic and social scientific disciplines. 1. Biographical Sketch. 2. Intellectual Background. 3. Major Works.
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
WEBAug 26, 2019 · 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 academic career culminated in a 1970...
Foucault's theory of power (Chapter 1) - Michel Foucault
WEBFoucault's analyses of power are simultaneously articulated at two levels, the empirical and the theoretical. The first level is constituted by a detailed examination of historically specific modes of power and how these modes emerged out of earlier forms.
Foucault, Michel | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBMichel Foucault (1926–1984) Michel 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.
Critical approaches: Michel Foucault's conceptions of discourse ...
WEBMichel Foucault has been a key figure providing inspiration, concepts, and analytical frameworks for critical discourse scholars. This chapter traces the development of Foucault's concept (s) of discourse from the Archaeological to the Genealogical periods, significantly drawing from Foucault's own texts.
Michel Foucault - Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBMay 1, 2023 · Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers in 1926 and died of AIDS in 1984 at the age of 57. In his short life span Foucault became an emblem for a generation of intellectuals: someone who embodied in his work the most-pressing intellectual issues of …
Michel Foucault - Philosopher, Postmodernism, Structuralism
WEBMichel Foucault - Philosopher, Postmodernism, Structuralism | Britannica. Contents. Home Philosophy & Religion Philosophers. Foucault’s influence. Foucault has been widely read and discussed in his own right.
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.
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