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The Diagnostician of Modernity: Michel Foucault, 1926-1984

Michel Foucault is the intellectual pet of the twentieth century academy. His writings reshaped the academic study of psychiatry, medicine, criminology, sexuality, and political administration. Scholars across the humanities and social sciences absorbed concepts that originated in his books: discourse, … Continue reading

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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Lovers Of Michel Foucault

Foucault devotees believe that Foucault’s historical analyses of the clinic, the prison, the asylum, and the mechanisms of sexuality represent a genuine historiographical method whose archival grounding, whose attention to discontinuity, and whose refusal of teleological narrative distinguishes his work … Continue reading

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