“the whole problem of violence against children was simply not a social problem at the time”
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Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault, known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, literary critic, and historian of ideas who analyzed the relationships between power, knowledge, and liberty, and how they are used as a form of social control through institutions. Sometimes called a structuralist or postmodernist, he rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limiting himself. His thoug…
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culture · French philosopher (1926–1984) · anthropologist · psychologist · historian · writer · sociologist · professor · screenwriter · literary critic · ethnologist · university teacher · also Michel Foucault, Michel Foucalt, Foucault, Michael Foucault, Mišel Fuko, Paul-Michel Foucault
Born 15 October 1926 · Died 25 June 1984 · Q44272
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2026· 9 entries
“The cultural revolution that followed May 68 was a social triumph in many, many ways. But its discourse on the sexuality of children has served to legitimise practices that are, at times, criminal.”
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“I reacted differently each time, according to the circumstances ... But when they insisted on it, I then caressed them.”
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“s concept of innate human faculties. Chomsky argued that concepts of justice were rooted in human reason, whereas Foucault rejected the universal basis for a concept of justice. Following the debate, Chomsky was stricken with Foucault”
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Know Your Meme: Have you read enough Foucault to get this? | History Memes
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Mshale: Jeffrey Foucault With Caitlin Canty And Billy Conway - Slow Talker Meteo Aeronautica (9XbScDVbRu)
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Mshale: How FOUCAULT PENDULUM Works And Proves Earth Is A Round SPINNING Sphere Pasto - Tolima (qvASidNpSG)
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Michel Foucault: 'Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to ref
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The New York Times: From A.I. to the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All
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2019· 1 entry
“Michel Foucault: Power and struggle”
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2016· 2 entries
In These Times: Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Failures of the Left
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His works Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality were among the 25 most cited books in the social sciences of all time, at just over 100,000 citations
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2014· 1 entry
The Washington Post: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian’s best friend
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2013· 1 entry
Libcom: Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison - Michel Foucault
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2012· 1 entry
To the National Library of France for €3
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2007· 1 entry
Foucault was listed as the single most cited scholar in the humanities by the ISI Web of Science among a large quantity of French philosophers, the compilation's author commenting that "What this says of modern scholarsh
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1998· 1 entry
As part of the Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents series as Forget Foucault
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1984· 3 entries
Died 1984-06-25.
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“There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.”
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“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought as a fish exists in water; that is, it ceases to breathe anywhere else.”
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1983· 1 entry
As Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel
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1982· 1 entry
“The Moral and Social Experience of the Poles”
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1981· 1 entry
The University of Vermont in 1982, and Berkeley again in 1983, where his lectures drew huge crowds
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1979· 1 entry
Campaigned for Vietnamese political dissidents to be granted asylum in France
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1978· 2 entries
“to assume that a child is incapable of explaining what happened and was incapable of giving his consent are two abuses that are intolerable, quite unacceptable.”
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Travelled to Tehran in Iran, days after the Black Friday massacre
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1977· 2 entries
Protested the extradition of Klaus Croissant to West Germany, and his rib was fractured during clashes with riot police
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Italian newspaper Corriere della sera asked Foucault to write a column for them
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1976· 2 entries
Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor
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Gallimard published Foucault's Histoire de la sexualité: la volonté de savoir (The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge), a short book exploring what Foucault called the "repressive hypothesis"
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1975· 2 entries
Had an LSD experience with Simeon Wade and Michael Stoneman in Death Valley, California, and later wrote "it was the greatest experience of his life, and that it profoundly changed his life and his work"
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Offering a history of the system in western Europe
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1973· 1 entry
Established the daily newspaper Libération, and Foucault suggested that they establish committees across France to collect news and distribute the paper, and advocated a column known as the "Chronicle of the Workers
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1970· 1 entry
And 1972, Foucault served as a professor in the French Department of the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York
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1969· 2 entries
Foucault embodied the idea of "the militant intellectual"
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He noted that in 1969, Foucault embodied the idea of "the militant intellectual".
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1968· 1 entry
Foucault returned to Paris, moving into an apartment on the Rue de Vaugirard
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1967· 1 entry
Brought staff strikes and student protests
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1964· 1 entry
A heavily abridged version was published as a mass market paperback, then translated into English for publication the following year as Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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1963· 1 entry
And translated in English in 1986, is Foucault's only book-length work on literature
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1960· 1 entry
His primary thesis (thèse principale) for his State doctorate, titled Folie et déraison : Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (trans
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1954· 1 entry
Foucault authored an introduction to Binswanger's paper "Dream and Existence", in which he argued that dreams constituted "the birth of the world" or "the heart laid bare", expressing the mind's deepest desires
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1953· 1 entry
But remained Althusser's friend and defender for the rest of his life
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1951· 1 entry
Focusing on the philosophy of psychology, but he relinquished it after only one year in 1952
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1950· 2 entries
Passed his agrégation in philosophy on the second try, in 1951
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But never became particularly active in its activities, and never adopted an orthodox Marxist viewpoint, rejecting core Marxist tenets such as class struggle
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1949· 1 entry
And a Specialist Diploma in Psychopathology (Diplôme de psychopathologie) from the university's institute of psychology (now called the Institut de psychologie de l'université Paris Descartes} in June 1952
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1948· 2 entries
The philosopher Louis Althusser became a tutor at the ENS
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And a Diplôme d'études supérieures (DES), roughly equivalent to an M
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1945· 1 entry
Foucault went to Paris, where he enrolled in one of the country's most prestigious secondary schools, which was also known as the Lycée Henri-IV
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1942· 1 entry
Entered his final year, the terminale, where he focused on the study of philosophy, earning his baccalauréat in 1943
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1939· 1 entry
The Second World War began, followed by Nazi Germany's occupation of France in 1940
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1930· 1 entry
Two years early, Foucault began his schooling at the local Lycée Henry-IV
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-10-15.
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