Michael Foucault: philosopher and historian, best known for his critical studies of various social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as his work on the history of sexuality

The soul is the prison of the body.

Summary

Michel Foucault (1926 -1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the College de France, giving it the title History of Systems of Thought and taught at the University of California, Berkeley.

He is best known for his critical studies of various social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as his work on the history of sexuality.

His work was influential in the area of Socio-Political Aspects of Aggression (see Psychological Aspects of Biodanza).

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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foucault

Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault

Quotes: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/michel_foucault.html

The World of Michel Foucault: http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html

Michael Foucalt, Online texts: http://www.foucault.info/documents/

Michael Foucalt, This is not a Pipe, excerpt, 1968: http://foucault.info/documents/foucault.thisIsNotaPipe.en.html

Michael Foucalt, What is Enlightenment?, The Foucault Reader, pp 32-50, 1984:
http://foucault.info/documents/whatIsEnlightenment/foucault.whatIsEnlightenment.en.html

Michel Foucault, The Crisis of Medicine or the Crisis of Antimedicine?, Foucault Studies, No 1, 2004, pp. 5-19:
http://www.michel-foucault.com/ecrits/foucault1.pdf

Clare O'Farrell, Foucault and Post Modernism, The Sydney Papers, 18(3-4), pp 182-194, 2006:
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00007131/01/7131.pdf

Noam Chomsky debates with Michel Foucault, Human Nature: Justice versus Power, 1971: http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm