Michel Foucault

French philospher Michel Foucault became world-famous for his research into the shifting patterns of power in society. In 1970 he was elected to France’s highest academic post, Professor of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France.

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Foucault, Michel; Post-Structuralism; Literary Criticism; Postmodernism (literature)

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