Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
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Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French philosopher, historian, and social theorist, widely known for his critical studies of institutions, knowledge, power, and discourse. His work continues to influence disciplines like philosophy, sociology, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and political science.
Biography
Born: October 15, 1926, in Poi
For the degeneration of the workers’ movement has led the theorists to represent the class struggle as a duel, or a game between actively conscious partners, and each social or political event as a manoeuvre by one of these partners—a conception that has no more to do with materialism than has Greek mythology.
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Foucault is a twentieth-century thinker of power and, specifically, the power to resist established ways of thinking and doing.