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About Michel Foucault
An Interview with Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault was born in France in 1926. He served as director at the Institut Français in Hamburg and the Institut de Philosophie at the Faculté des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand. In 1970 he was appointed Professor of History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France, where he taught for fourteen years. Himself a controversial intellectual presence, his lectures were often radically unconventional. His public life involved militant and courageous campaigning on behalf of prisoners, dissidents and homosexuals.
At the time of his death in 1984, Michel Foucault was without doubt France's most prominent thinker. His profoundly original studies of madness, crime, sexuality and methods of classification influenced disciplines as diverse as history, philosophy, sociology, medical history and literary criticism. He set new agendas for research in political theory, stimulated debates over gender identity, and raised questions about the meaning of truth and reason though the analysis of knowledge and power systems.
His many publications include Madness and Civilisation (1961); The Order of Things (1966); The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972); The Birth of the Clinic (1973); Discipline and Punish (1975) and three volumes of The History of Sexuality (1976, 1984, 1984).
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