biography
pronunciation:
[fookoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1926–84)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Poitiers, W France. A student of the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, he became professor of the history of systems of thought at the Collège de France (1970). He sought consistently to test cultural assumptions in given historical contexts. His most important writings include Histoire de la folie (1961, trans Madness and Civilization), Les mots et les choses (1966, trans The Order of Things), L'Archéologie du savoir (1969, The Archaeology of Knowledge), and the unfinished Histoire de la sexualité (1976–84, The History of Sexuality). |
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