Michel Foucault (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Didier Eribon
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1926-1984
- Setting: Primarily France; Sweden, Poland, Tunisia, and the United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Biography
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Politics, France or French people, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Psychology or psychologists, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Economics, Activism
- Locales: France, United States, Sweden, Poland, Tunisia
Any biographical study of Michel Foucault must inevitably chronicle the social and political evolution that shaped France and Western Europe from World War II to the 1980’s. Although Foucault attempted to disassociate himself from French society, and although he was reticent about his personal life, he was inextricably involved nevertheless in social, political, and philosophical movements that have influenced the understanding of history, psychology, and literature. Through works such as Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (1961; Madness and...
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