Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Passion of Michel Foucault. By James Miller. 491 pages. Simon & Schuster. $27.50. In 1983, Michel Foucault was ...

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the French publication of Michel Foucault’s dark masterpiece, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. A book of vast historical scope, written with lyrical ...

Michel Foucault was one of the most famous thinkers of the late 20th century, achieving celebrity-like status before his untimely death in 1984. His academic career culminated in a 1970 appointment as ...

French philosopher Michael Foucault in a studio during a radio broadcast in Paris, France, on December 16, 1981. AP Photo/Duclos Prior to his death in 1984, the French philosopher Michel Foucault ...

The Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation ...

Michel Foucault (center) with Jean Genet (right) at a Paris demonstration in the wake of the killing of Mohamed Diab by police in 1972. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and ...

If you’re looking for Daniel Rodriguez-Navas, you’ll find him firmly at the intersection of ethics and the history of philosophy. You’ll also find him in an office at The New School of Social Research ...

You write about Foucault as if he's not worth reading because the political consequences of some of his ideas have been pernicious. It's not that such consequences should be ignored - I think the ...

You see, the parrhesiastes is someone who takes a risk. –Michel Foucault, 1983 I don’t like Michel Foucault very much, the godfather of critical postmodernism and undertaker of Western rationalism. It ...