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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]
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
As Foucault discussed in his essay "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History", Foucault's ideas of genealogy were greatly influenced by the work that Nietzsche had done on the development of morals through power. Foucault also describes genealogy as a particular investigation into those elements which "we tend to feel [are] without history". [6]
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Foucault is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jean-Pierre Foucault (born 1947), French television host; Jeffrey Foucault (born 1976), American songwriter; Léon Foucault (1819–1868), French physicist; Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher; Steve Foucault (born 1949), former Major League Baseball pitcher
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 ...
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 ...
The family’s lineage begins with Foucauld I (973–1047), the first Lord of La Roche, later known as La Rochefoucauld (Roche + Foucauld), and possibly the son of Adémar de La Roche (also known as Amaury or Esmerin) (circa 952 – before 1037), Lord of La Roche. Over the centuries, the family rose in prominence, earning numerous titles and ...