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'''Michel Foucault''' (1926–84) was a French historian, philosopher and theorist who critically analyzed social institutions - medicine, psychiatry and the designation of 'madness', sexuality and prison - and attempted to show a hidden discourse of power behind them. As an activist, Foucault was radicalised after the 1968 Paris student riots and founded an organisation called the Prisoners Information Group - Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (or GIP) - which saw prisoners as an oppressed component of the proletariat to be liberated. | '''Michel Foucault''' (1926–84) was a [[France|French]] [[history|historian]], [[philosophy|philosopher]] and theorist who critically analyzed social institutions - [[medicine]], [[psychiatry]] and the designation of '[[madness]]', [[sexuality]] and [[prison]]s - and attempted to show a hidden discourse of power behind them. As an activist, Foucault was radicalised after the 1968 Paris student riots and founded an organisation called the Prisoners Information Group - Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (or GIP) - which saw prisoners as an oppressed component of the proletariat to be liberated. | ||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
* Madness and Civilization (1961) | * ''Madness and Civilization'' (1961) | ||
* The Birth of the Clinic (1963) | * ''The Birth of the Clinic'' (1963) | ||
* The Order of Things (1966) | * ''The Order of Things'' (1966) | ||
* The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) | * ''The Archaeology of Knowledge'' (1969) | ||
* Discipline and Punish (1975) | * ''Discipline and Punish'' (1975) | ||
* The History of Sexuality (vol. i, 1976) | * ''The History of Sexuality'' (vol. i, 1976) | ||
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Michel Foucault (1926–84) was a French historian, philosopher and theorist who critically analyzed social institutions - medicine, psychiatry and the designation of 'madness', sexuality and prisons - and attempted to show a hidden discourse of power behind them. As an activist, Foucault was radicalised after the 1968 Paris student riots and founded an organisation called the Prisoners Information Group - Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (or GIP) - which saw prisoners as an oppressed component of the proletariat to be liberated.
Works
- Madness and Civilization (1961)
- The Birth of the Clinic (1963)
- The Order of Things (1966)
- The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)
- Discipline and Punish (1975)
- The History of Sexuality (vol. i, 1976)