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    Paul-Michel Foucault (UK: /ˈfuːkoʊ/, US: /fuːˈkoʊ/; French: [pɔl miʃɛl fuko]; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas...
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  • Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a prominent twentieth-century French philosopher, who wrote prolifically. Many of his works were translated into English...
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  • Léon Foucault to demonstrate Earth's rotation, which has symbolic significance within the novel. Some believe that it refers to Michel Foucault, given...
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  • Biopolitics (category Michel Foucault)
    Biopolitics is a concept introduced by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the mid-20th century, which explores the intricate relationship between...
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  • Biopower (category Michel Foucault)
    populations[clarification needed]". It was coined by French social theorist Michel Foucault. Foucault first used the term in his lecture courses at the Collège de France...
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  • Episteme (redirect from Episteme (Foucault))
    retrieved 2022-04-01 Foucault, Michel (1970) [1966]. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Foucault, Michel (1980), Gordon, C. (ed...
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    Heterotopia (space) (category Michel Foucault)
    Heterotopia is a concept elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe certain cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow...
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  • perceived by activists, including Michel Foucault and Guy Hocquenghem, as being discriminatory against gay men. Michel Foucault argued that it is intolerable...
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  • Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, 1961) is an examination by Michel Foucault of the evolution of the meaning of madness in the cultures and laws...
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  • imperial experience". In his 1976 lecture Society Must Be Defended, Michel Foucault expanded on these ideas. According to him: [W]hile colonization, with...
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  • question toward the conditions of their possibility (particularly in Michel Foucault's genealogies). It has been developed as a continuation of the works...
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  • a bizarre and whimsical fictional Chinese taxonomy later quoted by Michel Foucault, David Byrne, and others. Borges begins by noting John Wilkins's absence...
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    continental philosophy, and discourse analysis. Following pioneering work by Michel Foucault, these fields view discourse as a system of thought, knowledge, or...
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    constructed reality). The 'genealogical' and 'archaeological' studies of Michel Foucault are of considerable contemporary influence. Peter Hamilton argues that...
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  • characterised as post-structuralist include Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard, although many theorists who...
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  • The History of Sexuality (category Works by Michel Foucault)
    sexuality in the Western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive...
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    "Diacritics", Volume 39, Number 3 (2009): 77–95. Foucault, Michel, "My Body, This Paper, This Fire," in Michel Foucault, History of Madness, ed. Jean Khalfa, trans...
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  • Power-knowledge (category Michel Foucault)
    term introduced by the French philosopher Michel Foucault (French: le savoir-pouvoir). According to Foucault's understanding, power is based on knowledge...
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  • Limit-experience (category Michel Foucault)
    subsequently became associated with French philosophers Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault through their use of the concept. When originally speaking on limit-experiences...
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    The Chomsky–Foucault debate was a debate about human nature, between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the...
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  • Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault are often cited as key precursory conceptual contributors to embodiment...
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    Daniel Defert (category Michel Foucault)
    activist. Partner to the late Michel Foucault, Defert co-founded France's first AIDS advocacy group, AIDES, following Foucault's death from complications related...
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  • Discipline and Punish (category Works by Michel Foucault)
    punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind...
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    Studies) of 1928 is the earliest example of discourse analysis (DA). Michel Foucault translated it into French. However, the term first came into general...
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  • Louis Althusser, Victor Turner, Jean Oury, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, R. D. Laing, David Cooper, and Pierre Clastres. They...
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  • Collège de France lectures published as Society Must Be Defended, Michel Foucault posits that the victors of a social struggle use their political dominance...
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  • wake of postmodern literature, critics such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have examined the role and relevance of authorship to the meaning or...
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  • The Passion of Michel Foucault is a biography of the French philosopher Michel Foucault authored by the American philosopher James Miller. It was first...
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  • Pompidou Centre. Michel Foucault is often cited as an early postmodernist although he personally rejected that label. Following Nietzsche, Foucault argued that...
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  • Governmentality (category Michel Foucault)
    Governmentality is a concept first developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the later years of his life, roughly between 1977 and his death...
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