Foucault

His Life

Born in France

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Died in France, 1984, of aids related illnesses

Major themes

Influences

Writers who Influenced Foucault

Karl Marx
Friedrich Nietzsche
Martin Heidegger
Louis Althusser
Georges Canguilhem

Works available online

• Repository of texts from Foucault.info (excerpts from Discipline & punish, Archeology of knowledge, Heterotopia, Manet, Pierre Rivière, Enlightenment, Author Function, etc.)
• List of texts from DMOZ
• Thefoucauldian.co.uk 18 online texts on Pierre Rivière, technologies of the self, archeology of knowledge, Nietzsche & genealogy, etc.
• Michel Foucault's Introduction to Kant's Anthropology original version translated by Arianna Bove, 2002
• Online audiorecording of Foucault at UC Berkeley, April 1983: "The Culture of the Self"
• Sexual Morality and the Law, April 1978 - Transcript of a Radio France Culture conversation between Foucault, Jean Danet, and Guy Hocquenghem about age of consent. See also: "Romance is Dead" Daniel Z. Epstein, 2007.
• "What are the Iranians Dreaming About?" - an excerpt from Foucault and the Iranian Revolution

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