Michel Foucault

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French person historian of ideas human philosopher social theorist

Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."

Aliases (2)

Foucault ×2
Paul-Michel Foucault ×1

Statements (77)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person → historian of ideas → human → philosopher → social theorist →
causeOfDeath	AIDS-related complications →
citizenship	French Republic →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1926-10-15 →
dateOfDeath	1984-06-25 →
educatedAt	University of Paris → École Normale Supérieure →
employer	Collège de France → University of Clermont-Ferrand → University of Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis → University of Tunis →
familyName	Foucault →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → ethics → history of ideas → history of sexuality → literary criticism → philosophy → political theory → social theory →
fullName	Paul-Michel Foucault →
genre	non-fiction → philosophical literature →
givenName	Paul-Michel →
influenced	Anthony Giddens → David Garland → Edward Said → Gilles Deleuze → Ian Hacking → Judith Butler → Michel de Certeau → Nikolas Rose → Paul Rabinow →
influencedBy	Friedrich Nietzsche → Georges Canguilhem → Martin Heidegger → Maurice Blanchot → Sigmund Freud →
language	French →
mainInterest	biopolitics → discourse → governmentality → knowledge → madness → power → sexuality → subjectivity →
movement	post-structuralism → postmodernism → structuralism →
nationality	French →
notableConcept	archaeology of knowledge → biopower → disciplinary power → genealogy → governmentality → panopticism → power/knowledge →
notableWork	Discipline and Punish → Madness and Civilization → Security, Territory, Population → Society Must Be Defended → The Archaeology of Knowledge → The Birth of the Clinic → The History of Sexuality → The Order of Things →
placeOfBirth	Poitiers, France →
placeOfDeath	Paris, France →
positionHeld	Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France →
religion	atheism →
residence	Paris, France →
sexualOrientation	gay →

Referenced by (17)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Beyond Good and Evil → Claude Lévi-Strauss → Friedrich Nietzsche → Marquis de Sade → Martin Heidegger → On the Genealogy of Morality → will to power →	influenced
Gilles Deleuze → Joan W. Scott → Seyla Benhabib →	influencedBy
Humboldt University of Berlin → Lycée Henri-IV →	hasNotableAlumni
Michel Foucault ("Foucault") →	familyName
Michel Foucault ("Paul-Michel Foucault") →	fullName
Collège de France →	hasNotableProfessor
Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House →	influencedThinker
Gilles Deleuze ("Foucault") →	notableWork