Michel Foucault
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- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Foucault was a controversial thinker and theorist who examined structures of societal and political power in Western thought and how they related to discourse and language as well as to human sexuality.
Early Life
Michel Foucault was born on October 15, 1926, in Poitiers, France, into the middle-class family of Dr. Paul Foucault and his wife, the former Anne Malapert. After attending the local Catholic school, in 1944 the promising young scholar was sent to the Lycée Henri IV in Paris, where he prepared for the entrance examinations to...
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