Michel Foucault (
IPA pronunciation: ) (
October 15,
1926 –
June 25,
1984) was a
French philosopher,
historian and
sociologist. He held a chair at the
Collège de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and taught at the
University of California, Berkeley.Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various
social institutions, most notably
psychiatry,
medicine, the human sciences, and the
prison system, as well as for his work on the
history of human sexuality. Foucault's work on
power, and the relationships among power,
knowledge, and
discourse, has been widely discussed and applied. Sometimes described as
postmodernist or
post-structuralist, in the 1960s he was more often associated with the
structuralist movement. Foucault later distanced himself from structuralism and always rejected the post-structuralist and postmodernist labels.
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