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Bookmark or Share- Michel Foucault - Philosopher, Postmodernism, Power | BritannicaWhat is their essence? What is the essence of human history? Of humankind? Contrary to so many of his intellectual predecessors, Foucault sought not to answer these traditional and seemingly straightforward questions but to critically examine them and the responses they had inspired.
- Key Theories of Michel Foucault – Literary Theory and CriticismFoucault’s central thesis is that of epochal shifts, or alignments, between those subjects deemed mad, and those who are part of the ‘unreason’ of the human world: the subjects who have transgressive and excessive sexualities, ideas and modes of behaviour.
- Michel Foucault - WikipediaPaul-Michel Foucault (UK: / ˈ f uː k oʊ /, US: / f uː ˈ k oʊ /; French: [pɔl miʃɛl fuko]; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.
- Foucault, Michel | Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyFoucault’s point is that we imagine power as being a thing that can be possessed by individuals, as organized pyramidally, with one person at the apex, operating via negative sanctions. Foucault argues that power is in fact more amorphous and autonomous than this, and essentially relational.
- Michel Foucault - Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyMichel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French historian and philosopher, associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. He has had strong influence not only in philosophy but also in a wide range of humanistic and social scientific disciplines.
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