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Archaeology of knowledge · genealogy · 1926–1984

Michel Foucault

Question the assumptions that govern us.

Poitiers · Paris · Tunis
Portraits: artistic interpretations
01At a glance02Biography03Philosophy04Reading guides05Bibliography
Reading guides

A thread to guide your reading.

Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.

Michel FoucaultA place to begin

Reading institutions

Reconstruct discipline, surveillance and norms through Discipline and Punish.

Discipline and Punish
9 min
Michel FoucaultGoing further

Exploring archives

Examine statements and historical rules in The Archaeology of Knowledge.

The Archaeology of Knowledge
11 min
Michel FoucaultGoing further

Power and sexuality

Question the repressive hypothesis and power relations in The Will to Knowledge.

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge
13 min
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Bring perspectives into conversation.

Continue with other ways of asking the question.

Critique of values

Friedrich Nietzsche

Critical philosophy

Immanuel Kant

Existentialism & feminist thought

Simone de Beauvoir

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