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OpinionThe philosopher who set his field on fire: Hardly anyone has influenced research and society as much as Michel Foucault - | A philosopher whose ideas are once ...
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Michel Foucault: How the compulsion to be the "right sex" arose: In his posthumously published book "The Hermaphrodites," the philosopher examines the ...
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Stefan Zweifel on Michel Foucault's newly discovered text on hermaphrodites: Stefan Zweifel on Michel Foucault and his recently discovered text on the ...
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Foucault, the pyrotechnician who stood by trans people : As reviled as he was revered, the influential French philosopher who wanted to dismantle the dynamics of ...
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Foucault, the pyrotechnician who stood by trans people : As reviled as he was revered, the influential French philosopher who wanted to dismantle the dynamics of ...
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Why Foucault’s work on power is more important than ever: Original, painstaking, sometimes frustrating and often dazzling. Foucault’s work on power matters now ...
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100 years of Michel Foucault: Herculine Barbin and the sex scandal: Herculine Barbin was central to Michel Foucault's research: First, she lived as a woman ...
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Foucault in Münsterlingen: How Swiss Psychiatry Shaped the Frenchman: In 1954, the 27-year-old Frenchman met Ludwig Binswanger in Münsterlingen ...
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Paid articlePaywall 100th birthday: Was Michel Foucault right-wing or left-wing?: Icy politeness: Why Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas had so little to say to each other.
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Foucault's 100th birthday resembles a funeral: No one seems deader than him today
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100 Years of Foucault: The Logic of Competition: Michel Foucault, who would have turned one hundred in October, is sometimes accused of taking an uncritical view ...
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The Haunted Present: Adorno, Sontag, Foucault, Feyerabend, and the End of Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger
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Foucault: Unpublished text "The Hermaphrodites" shows pre-modern freedom: To mark the 100th anniversary of the philosopher's birth, the text "The ...
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In October, the 100th birthday of the French thinker will be celebrated. The first chapter of his essay "The Discourse of Philosophy" is titled "Diagnosis" ... Show more

Diagnosis: In October, the 100th birthday of the French thinker will be celebrated. The first chapter of his essay "The Discourse of Philosophy" is titled ...
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Series on Foucault's 100th birthday: Projections of an intellectual: In the 1970s, the French philosopher Michel Foucault saw a force for liberation in Islam ...
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OpinionPhilosophy on the beach: Suhrkamp's new Foucault flip-flops: Suhrkamp sends Foucault to the beach: On the philosopher's centenary, "Madness and ...
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Reopening of the Rivière case: In 1973, Michel Foucault edited the files on the case of a farmer who murdered his mother in 1835 and submitted a written account ...
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The Evil Philosopher: How Jean-Jacques Rousseau Invented Woke Ideology: Postmodern philosophy has poisoned the world, says a French AI entrepreneur ...
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Paid articlePaywall Why did Foucault see the Iranian Revolution as such a pivotal event?: These days mark the centenary of the birth of French philosopher Michel Foucault. In Iran ...
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