“Every crease is a story.”

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1926–1984
Paul-Michel Foucault, known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, literary critic, and historian of ideas who analyzed the relationships between power, knowledge, and liberty, and how they are used as a form of social control through institutions. Sometimes called a structuralist or postmodernist, he rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limiting himself. His thought has influenced academics in many areas of study, including anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His arguments against homophobia, racial prejudice, and other ideological doctrines have also shaped scholarship on critical theory and Marxism.
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Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault & Simon Prebble, 1975

The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault, 1976

Madness and Civilization
Michel Foucault, 1965

The Order of Things
Michel Foucault, 1970

The Archaeology of Knowledge & the Discourse on Language
Michel Foucault, 1972

The Birth of the Clinic
Michel Foucault, 1963

Power/knowledge
Michel Foucault, 1980

L'histoire de la sexualité, t.1
Michel Foucault, 1976

This Is Not a Pipe
Michel Foucault, 1983

Histoire de la sexualité
Michel Foucault, 1978

Mental Illness and Psychology
Michel Foucault, 1966

History of Madness
Michel Foucault, 2006

The Foucault reader
Michel Foucault, 1984

Power
Michel Foucault, 2000

Ethics
Michel Foucault, 1997

Society Must Be Defended
Michel Foucault, 1997

Herculine Barbin
Michel Foucault

Microfisica do poder.
Michel Foucault, 2004

Dream & Existence
Michel Foucault & Ludwig Binswanger, 1986

Überwachen und Strafen. Die Geburt des Gefängnisses
Michel Foucault, 1994

The Politics of Truth
Michel Foucault, 1997

The essential Foucault
Michel Foucault & Nikolas Rose, 2003

Politics, Philosophy, Culture
Michel Foucault, 1988

L' ordre du discours
Michel Foucault, 1971

Security, Territory, Population
Michel Foucault, 2007

A arqueologia do saber
Michel Foucault, 2004

The Punitive Society
Michel Foucault, Arnold I. Davidson & others, 2015

Les Machines à guérir
Michel Foucault, 1979

Michel Foucault
Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton & others, 1979

Language, Counter-memory, Practice
Michel Foucault, 1977

Raymond Roussel
Michel Foucault, 1963

Les mots et les choses
Michel Foucault, 1966

Abnormal
Michel Foucault, 2000

Historia da loucura na idade classica
Michel Foucault, 2000

Foucault
David Couzens Hoy & Michel Foucault, 1986

I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother ...
Blandine Kriegel & Michel Foucault, 1978

Sicurezza, territorio, popolazione
Michel Foucault, 2005

Die Ordnung des Diskurses
Michel Foucault, 1991

Naissance de la biopolitique
Michel Foucault, 2004

Foucault live
Michel Foucault & Sylvère Lotringer, 1989

The Courage of the Truth (the Government of Self and Others II)
Michel Foucault, 2010

Introduction to Kant's Anthropology
Michel Foucault, 2007

A ordem do discurso
Michel Foucault, 2004

La sociedad punitiva
Michel Foucault, 2018

The Archaeology of Knowledge
Michel Foucault, 1969

Herculine Barbin, dite Alexina B
Herculine Barbin & Michel Foucault, 1978

Die Hauptwerke
Michel Foucault, 2010

Un diálogo sobre el poder y otras conversaciones
Michel Foucault & Miguel Morey Farré, 2012
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