Michel Foucault Biography

Michel Foucault biography

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NAME: Michel Foucault
OCCUPATION: Anthropologist, Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Activist, Academic Author, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: October 15, 1926
DEATH DATE: June 25, 1984
EDUCATION: École Normale Supérieure
PLACE OF BIRTH: Poitiers, France
PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France
Full Name: Paul-Michel Foucault

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Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian. His best known works are Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality.

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Michel Foucault was born on October 15 1926 in Poitiers, France. He was a French philosopher and historian and became one of the most influential and controversial scholars of the post-World War II period. His best known works are Discipline and Punish and the multi-volume, but incomplete, The History of Sexuality. Foucault died of AIDS-related septicemia in 1984.