When Was Michel Foucault Born?

Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions.

How old is Michel Foucault?

Michel Foucault, one of France's most prominent philosophers and historians, whose writings explored society's reaction to deviants, died yesterday in the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. He was 57 years old.

What is Michel Foucault's theory?

Foucault argued that knowledge and power are intimately bound up. So much so, that that he coined the term “power/knowledge” to point out that one is not separate from the other. ... In his most important works, this included an analysis of texts, images and buildings in order to map how forms of knowledge change.