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Foucault was [[homosexual]], and indulged in the San Francisco sadomasochistic bath-house scene when he visited the US.<ref>Eribon, Didier (1991) [1989]. Michel Foucault. Betsy Wing (translator). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-57286-7.</ref><ref name=JamesMiller /> However, this coincided with the rise of HIV amongst the gay community, and Foucault died of AIDS.<ref name=JamesMiller>Miller, James (1993). The Passion of Michel Foucault. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-674-00157-2.</ref> | Foucault was [[homosexual]], and indulged in the San Francisco sadomasochistic bath-house scene when he visited the US.<ref>Eribon, Didier (1991) [1989]. Michel Foucault. Betsy Wing (translator). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-57286-7.</ref><ref name=JamesMiller /> However, this coincided with the rise of HIV amongst the gay community, and Foucault died of AIDS.<ref name=JamesMiller>Miller, James (1993). The Passion of Michel Foucault. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-674-00157-2.</ref> | ||
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*''Histoire de la sexualité'', 3 volumes: ''La volonté de savoir'', ''L'usage des plaisirs'', and ''Le souici de soi'', Paris: Gallimard, 1976 (''History of Sexuality'', 3 volumes: ''Introduction'', ''The Uses of Pleasure'', and ''Care of the Self'', translated by Robert Hurley, New York: Vintage Books, 1988-90). | *''Histoire de la sexualité'', 3 volumes: ''La volonté de savoir'', ''L'usage des plaisirs'', and ''Le souici de soi'', Paris: Gallimard, 1976 (''History of Sexuality'', 3 volumes: ''Introduction'', ''The Uses of Pleasure'', and ''Care of the Self'', translated by Robert Hurley, New York: Vintage Books, 1988-90). | ||
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[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/ "Michel Foucault"], ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''. | [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/ "Michel Foucault"], ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''. | ||
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Michel Foucault (b. June 15, 1926, Poitiers, France; d. June 25, 1984, Paris) was a 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. Foucault was primarily interested in how power was continually reinforced through the daily routines of modern life, in settings such as school, the workplace, the medical system and sexual behavior.
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.
Foucault was homosexual, and indulged in the San Francisco sadomasochistic bath-house scene when he visited the US.[1][2] However, this coincided with the rise of HIV amongst the gay community, and Foucault died of AIDS.[2]
His major works include
- Folie et déraison, Paris: Gallimard, 1966 (Madness and Civilization, translated by Richard Howard, New York: Pantheon, 1965)
- Naissance de la clinique, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1963 (The Birth of the Clinic, translated by A. Sheridan Smith, New York: Pantheon, 1973)
- Les mots et les choses, Paris: Gallimard, 1966 (The Order of Things, New York: Vintage, 1973)
- L'archéologie du savoir, Paris: Gallimard, 1969 (The Archaeology of Knowledge, translated by A. Sheridan Smith, New York: Harper and Row, 1972)
- Surveiller et punir, Paris: Gallimard, 1975 (Discipline and Punish, translated by Alan Sheridan, New York: Pantheon, 1977)
- Histoire de la sexualité, 3 volumes: La volonté de savoir, L'usage des plaisirs, and Le souici de soi, Paris: Gallimard, 1976 (History of Sexuality, 3 volumes: Introduction, The Uses of Pleasure, and Care of the Self, translated by Robert Hurley, New York: Vintage Books, 1988-90).
Reference
"Michel Foucault", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.