Michel Foucault asked how power really works. He studied the history of madness, medicine, prisons and sexuality. He showed how institutions shape what societies think is normal or deviant. Discipline and Punish traced the shift from public torture to modern prisons and surveillance. He argued that knowledge and power are closely linked. He was also a political activist who campaigned for prisoners' rights. His ideas run through the humanities and social sciences today.
Key Milestones
1961: History of Madness – book
1966: The Order of Things – book
1970: Collège de France – chair
1975: Discipline and Punish – book
Paul-Michel Foucault, known as Michel Foucault, (UK: FOO-koh, US: foo-KOH; French:; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) 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…
Michel Foucault's birthday is October 15. He was born on October 15, 1926 in Poitiers, France.
How old was Michel Foucault when he died?
Michel Foucault died on June 25, 1984, aged 57.
Who shares a birthday with Michel Foucault?
Famous people who share Michel Foucault's October 15 birthday include Friedrich Nietzsche, Akbar, Mikhail Lermontov, Mesut Özil and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
