Michel Foucault
French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.
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1976
Gallimard published Foucault's "The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge", a short book exploring what Foucault called the "repressive hypothesis". It revolved largely around the concept of power, rejecting both Marxist and Freudian theory.
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1951
From 1951 to 1955, he worked as a psychology instructor at the ENS at Althusser's invitation.
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June 1952
He obtained a Diploma in Psychopathology from the University's Institute of Psychology.
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1949
Foucault was also interested in psychology and he attended Daniel Lagache's lectures at the University of Paris, where he obtained a B.A. (licence) in Psychology in 1949.
1948
He graduated from the ENS with a B.A. (licence) in Philosophy in 1948 and a DES (roughly equivalent to an M.A.) in Philosophy in 1949.
1948
He graduated from the ENS with a B.A. (licence) in Philosophy in 1948 and a DES (roughly equivalent to an M.A.) in Philosophy in 1949.
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1948
He graduated from the ENS with a B.A. (licence) in Philosophy in 1948 and a DES (roughly equivalent to an M.A.) in Philosophy in 1949.
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1948
Prone to self-harm, in 1948 Foucault allegedly attempted suicide; his father sent him to see the psychiatrist Jean Delay at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center.
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1946
In autumn 1946, attaining excellent results, Foucault was admitted to the élite École Normale Supérieure (ENS), for which he undertook exams and an oral interrogation by Georges Canguilhem and Pierre-Maxime Schuhl to gain entry.
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1945
Rejecting his father's wishes that he become a surgeon, in 1945 Foucault went to Paris, where he enrolled in one of the country's most prestigious secondary schools, which was also known as the Lycée Henri-IV. Here he studied under the philosopher Jean Hyppolite, an existentialist and expert on the work of 19th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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1930
Foucault began his schooling at the local Lycée Henry-IV.
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