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Michel Foucault (1926–84) was a French philosopher who made contributions regarding issues of power, knowledge, and discourse.
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'''Michel Foucault''' (1926–84) was a [[France|French]] [[history|historian]], [[philosophy|philosopher]] and theorist who critically analyzed social institutions - [[medicine]], [[psychiatry]] and the designation of '[[madness]]', [[sexuality]] and [[prison]]s - and attempted to show a hidden discourse of power behind them. As an activist, Foucault was radicalised after the 1968 Paris student riots and founded an organisation called the Prisoners Information Group - Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (or GIP) - which saw prisoners as an oppressed component of the proletariat to be liberated.


==Works==
==Works==
Madness and Civilization (1961),
* ''Madness and Civilization'' (1961)
The Birth of the Clinic (1963),
* ''The Birth of the Clinic'' (1963)
The Order of Things (1966),
* ''The Order of Things'' (1966)
The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969),
* ''The Archaeology of Knowledge'' (1969)
Discipline and Punish (1975),
* ''Discipline and Punish'' (1975)
The History of Sexuality (vol. i, 1976)
* ''The History of Sexuality'' (vol. i, 1976)[[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]]
 
 
 
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Michel Foucault (1926–84) was a French historian, philosopher and theorist who critically analyzed social institutions - medicine, psychiatry and the designation of 'madness', sexuality and prisons - and attempted to show a hidden discourse of power behind them. As an activist, Foucault was radicalised after the 1968 Paris student riots and founded an organisation called the Prisoners Information Group - Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (or GIP) - which saw prisoners as an oppressed component of the proletariat to be liberated.

Works

  • Madness and Civilization (1961)
  • The Birth of the Clinic (1963)
  • The Order of Things (1966)
  • The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)
  • Discipline and Punish (1975)
  • The History of Sexuality (vol. i, 1976)