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Name:
Michel Foucault
Dates:
Born: October 15, 1926 in Poitiers, France
Died: June 25, 1984 (AIDS)
Becomes Communist: 1950
Leaves the Communist Party: 1953
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Clermont-Ferrand: 1962
Biography:
Michel Foucault rejected many of the common assumptions made about human nature
and human science, examining instead how the concepts of human nature and science
have functioned in society. Foucault did not believe that there existed any sort of
"universal position" from which humanity or nature could be examined and studied.
Every analysis is, rather, fixed firmly in its socio-historical context. There is not, even
a universal "reason" which can analyze a problem or situation - instead, there is a
muliplicity of "reasons" which people use, none of which are superior or preferable to
any other.
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