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'''Michel Foucault''' (b. June 15, 1926, Poitiers, France; d. June 25, 1984, Paris) was a [[France|French]] [[philosopher]] and [[historian]] associated with [[post-structuralism]] whose work in the study of the cultural bases of [[sexuality]], [[psychology]] and [[criminology]] was broadly influential within and beyond the academy. One of his teachings indicated that everything in existence does not serve a beneficial purpose, but simply to take control of everyone and everything. He also praised Ayatollah Khomeini despite the latter's anti-gay persecutions in Iran.
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'''Michel Foucault''' (b. June 15, 1926, Poitiers, France; d. June 25, 1984, Paris) was a [[France|French]] [[philosopher]] and [[historian]] associated with [[post-structuralism]] whose work in the study of the cultural bases of [[sexuality]], [[psychology]] and [[criminology]] was broadly influential within and beyond the academy. One of his teachings indicated that everything in existence does not serve a beneficial purpose, but simply to take control of everyone and everything. He also praised Ayatollah Khomeini despite the latter's anti-gay persecutions in Iran.{{fact}}
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He also was largely responsible for the philosophy department of the then-recently created University of Vincennes being infamously radicalized, and participated with 500 students in a takeover of the school, hurling projectiles at cops to "resist", as part of a solidarity movement for the Sorbonne student takeover that same day on January 1969.
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He also was largely responsible for the philosophy department of the then-recently created University of Vincennes being infamously radicalized, and he participated with 500 students in a takeover of the school, hurling projectiles at cops to "resist", as part of a solidarity movement for the Sorbonne student takeover that same day in January 1969.
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He died of AIDs due to his libertine lifestyle, in particular [[homosexuality]], after discovering the presence of a subculture in Sacramento Bay, California, and knowingly infected several others in bath houses. One of his last words was, in a dismissal of safe sex, "to die for the love of boys, what could be more beautiful."
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He died of AIDS due to his libertine lifestyle, in particular [[homosexuality]], after discovering the presence of a subculture in Sacramento Bay, California, and knowingly infected several others in bath houses.{{fact}} One of his last words was, in a dismissal of safe sex, "to die for the love of boys, what could be more beautiful."{{fact}}
    
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