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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.
Daniel Defert (10 September 1937 – 7 February 2023) was a French sociologist and HIV/AIDS activist. Partner to the late Michel Foucault, Defert co-founded France's first AIDS advocacy group, AIDES, following Foucault's death from complications related to the disease.
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.
1984 – Michel Foucault was the first high-profile French personality to die of AIDS after contracting HIV. 1986 – Simone de Beauvoir died of pneumonia. 1990 – Louis Althusser died of a heart attack. 1992 – Félix Guattari died of a heart attack. 1994 – David Stove committed suicide by hanging himself after a painful struggle with disease.
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 ...
Governmentality is a concept first developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault, roughly between 1977 and his death in 1984, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France during this time. Governmentality can be understood as: the organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are ...
Biopower (or biopouvoir in French), coined by French social theorist Michel Foucault, [1] refers to various means by which modern nation states control their populations.In Foucault's work, it has been used to refer to practices of public health, regulation of heredity, and risk regulation, among many other regulatory mechanisms often linked less directly with literal physical health.
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a prominent twentieth-century French philosopher, who wrote prolifically. Many of his works were translated into English. Many of his works were translated into English.