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Topic: Michel Foucault

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Sigmund Freud,  Che Guevara,  Carl Jung
Personality:Philosophical,  Insane
Politics:Feminist,  Gay activism
Favorite author(s):Virginia Woolf
Favorite era(s):1990s
Interest(s):Sex education
Favorite great thinker(s):Thomas Hobbes
Favorite destination(s):France,  Britain
Favorite philosopher(s):Nietzsche,  Voltaire,  Hegel
Ultimate fantasy(s):Cross-dressing for a day
Favorite quote(s):"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
 
 
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

In Michel Foucault's view, the prison is the model, the point of origin, for the entire model of social control that characterizes industrialized societies.
Foucault, Michel Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison; translated from the French by Alan Sheridan.
Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Poststructrualist theory is even making headway in the unlikely fields of business management and accounting: in Australia, Michel Foucault's methodologies are now taken seriously enough to be taught to graduate students in accounting at the University of New South Wales.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

The three required texts were Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Consider the effect of reading, say, Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization in conjunction with Thomas Szsaz's The Manufacture of Madness or The Myth of Mental Illness.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Michel Foucault asks in The History of Sexuality : "By what spiral did we come to affirm that sex is negated?
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

This course will center around a close reading of the first volume of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality, with some attention to his writings on the history of ancient conceptualizations of sex.
This course centers on a close reading of the first volume of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality, with some attention to his writings on the history of ancient conceptualizations of sex.
I get a lot of people asking for the source of this passage, which has been famously used in the preface to Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, as well as a few other works.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Use Michel Foucault's theory of the history of science to analyze the triumph of modernism as described in Stephen Toulmin's Cosmopolis and as revealed in the triumph of creationism and deism in Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and the Newton-Bentley correspondence.
My study draws on Michel Foucault's arguments about how modern discursive practices construct the very objects they describe.
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality will provide theoretical context to the course.
 
 
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