Christopher Lasch and Michel Foucault are rarely read side by side. Yet the two thinkers praised each other’s work, recognizing themselves as involved in a common project. Both assessed, on the one ...

Question 1: Are Foucault's analyses of actualité useful to understand the movement of societies? In which fields does it seem to you it that they should be renewed, readjusted, continued? Answer 1: ...

Michel Foucault’s (1926–84) influence extends beyond philosophy across the humanities and social science. He is perhaps best known for his critiques of various social institutions, most notably ...

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Michel Foucault was one of the most famous thinkers of the late 20th century, achieving celebrity-like status before his untimely death in 1984. His academic career culminated in a 1970 appointment as ...

Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem self-evident. Even critics like Noam Chomsky, who derided Foucault’s moral theories as ...

Confessions of the Flesh, published against the late philosopher’s wishes, turns attention to medieval Europe A previously unpublished work by Michel Foucault, in which the French philosopher takes on ...

French philosopher Michael Foucault in a studio during a radio broadcast in Paris, France, on December 16, 1981. AP Photo/Duclos Prior to his death in 1984, the French philosopher Michel Foucault ...