Foucault, Michel (1926-84)

  • Arpad Szakolczai

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Abstract

Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and also most controversial, social thinkers of the century. His work represents a sustained effort to reconstruct the way in which the specifically modern Western form of subjectivity has become what it is through the institutionalization of techniques of self and practices of truth-telling, and the will to truth and knowledge.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Pages368-373
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameInternational Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition

Keywords

  • Archaeology of knowledge
  • Crime
  • Foucault
  • Genealogy
  • Heidegger
  • Illness
  • Madness
  • Nietzsche
  • Parrhesia
  • Power relations
  • Self
  • Sexuality
  • Subjectivity
  • Truth
  • Weber (Max)

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