Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social... Wikipedia
Born: October 15, 1926, Poitiers, France
Died: June 25, 1984 (age 57 years), Paris, France
Influenced: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, and more
Influenced by: Gilles Deleuze, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, and more
Education: University of Paris (1961), École normale supérieure (1946–1951), Paris-Sorbonne University (1948), and more
Parents: Paul Foucault and Anne Malapert