Michel Foucault
Question the assumptions that govern us.
Michel Foucault studies histories of knowledge, institutions and practices through which human beings are classified, governed and form themselves as subjects. From psychiatry to prisons and sexuality, his inquiries examine relations among power, truth and possibilities of resistance.
How did what seems natural become self-evident?
Biography
Michel Foucault studies histories of knowledge, institutions and practices through which human beings are classified, governed and form themselves as subjects. From psychiatry to prisons and sexuality, his inquiries examine relations among power, truth and possibilities of resistance.
02 /Philosophy
Power relations and forms of knowledge are produced and transformed together in concrete historical practices.
03 /Reading guides
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
04 /Bibliography
Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
A first reading.
Reading institutions
Reconstruct discipline, surveillance and norms through Discipline and Punish.
Discipline and PunishExploring archives
Examine statements and historical rules in The Archaeology of Knowledge.
The Archaeology of KnowledgePower and sexuality
Question the repressive hypothesis and power relations in The Will to Knowledge.
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge