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Michel Foucault (15 October, 1926 25 June, 1984), was a French philosopher, sociologist and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley.

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 work on power, and the relationships among power, knowledge, and discourse has been widely discussed. In the 1960s Foucault was associated with Structuralism, a movement from which he distanced himself. Foucault also rejected the post-structuralist and postmodernist labels to which he was often later attributed, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity rooted in Kant. Foucault is particularly influenced by the work of Nietzsche; his "genealogy of knowledge" is a direct allusion to Nietzsche's genealogy of morals. In a late interview he definitively stated: "I am a Nietzschean."

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[LamparinaFilmes]

To talk about and reflect on "la folie", madness, violence and medical procedure has been one of many great contributions of Michel Foucault to the process and history of thinking. Despite all criticisms cooked up against him in search of quick fame, Foucault is unbeatable on the breath and relevance of an admirable prose and depth of thought.

[SollicitationisC]

Crimen Sollicitationis

[elmasloco15]

@LamparinaFilmes I agree, Focault was frightening in his depth of understand history and society. Foucault was Einstein for the Social Sciences.

[Sn0WStyle]

1:14 Tellement vrai

[MrMarxwasright]

verdammte Franzmaenner!

[ryevrah]

Merci, Michel. L'un des penseurs les plus osés. Et si modeste.