Michel Foucault

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-10-15 (58 years old)

Deathday

1984-06-25

Place of Birth

Poitiers, Vienne, France

Michel Foucault

Biography

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) 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 social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory. Born in Poitiers, France, into a...

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