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Soon after his death, Foucault's partner Daniel Defert founded the first national HIV/AIDS organisation in France, AIDES; a play on the French word for "help" (aide) and the English- language acronym for the disease. [171] On the second anniversary of Foucault's death, Defert publicly revealed in The Advocate that Foucault's death was AIDS-related.
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.
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
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It proposes that every historical period has underlying epistemic assumptions, ways of thinking, which determine what is truth and what is acceptable discourse about a ...
Daniel Defert was born on 10 September 1937. He graduated from the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud.He earned the agrégation in philosophy. [1] Defert met Foucault while he was a philosophy student at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France and their relationship lasted from 1963 until Foucault's death in 1984.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et 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and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.
In 1983, Ruas was asked to translate Michel Foucault’s first book, Death and the Labyrinth: Raymond Roussel, [43] [44] about one of the fathers of experimental writing. When in Paris, Ruas was introduced to Foucault by Edmund White, who was a close friend.
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 ...