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Paul-Michel Foucault was born on 15 October 1926 in the city of Poitiers, west-central France, as the second of three children in a prosperous, socially conservative, upper-middle-class family. [11]
In France, The Order of Things established Foucault's intellectual pre-eminence among the national intelligentsia; in a review of which, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said that Foucault was "the last barricade of the bourgeoisie." Responding to Sartre, Foucault said, "poor bourgeoisie; if they needed me as a 'barricade', then they had ...
English: Grave of Michel Foucault (right, inscription: "Paul Michel Foucault / Professeur au Collège de France / 1926 - 1984"), his mother (right, inscription: "Anne Malapert-Foucault / 1900 - 1987") and his father (left, inscription: "Docteur Foucault / 1883 - 1959") at the cemetery of 86380 Vendeuvre-du-Poitou, Route des Sablières
How far Foucault's fascination with intense experiences goes in his entire body of work is the subject of debate, with the concept arguably being absent from his later and more well known work on sexuality and discipline, as well as strongly associated with the cult of the mad artist in Madness and Civilization. [10]
The Lives of Michel Foucault is a 1993 biography of French philosopher Michel Foucault by David Macey. Bibliography. Collins, Stephen L. (1994). "Review of The ...
Maurice Blanchot (/ b l ɑː n ˈ ʃ oʊ / blahn-SHOH; French:; 22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. [4] His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy.
The Archaeology of Knowledge (L’archéologie du savoir, 1969) by Michel Foucault is a treatise about the methodology and historiography of the systems of thought (epistemes) and of knowledge (discursive formations) which follow rules that operate beneath the consciousness of the subject individuals, and which define a conceptual system of possibility that determines the boundaries of ...
John Ashbery summarizes Locus Solus thus in his introduction to Michel Foucault's Death and the Labyrinth: "A prominent scientist and inventor, Martial Canterel, has invited a group of colleagues to visit the park of his country estate, Locus Solus.