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   Source:  Time, July 9, 1984 v124 p88(1).
                                                                              
    Title:  Michel Foucault. (obituary)
                                                                              
 Subjects:  Philosophers - Biography
   People:  Foucault, Michel - Biography
                                                                              
  Magazine Collection:  23G1268
Electronic Collection:  A3344518
                   RN:  A3344518
                                                                              

Full Text COPYRIGHT Time Inc. 1984

DIED. Michael Foucault, 57, opaque, paradoxical French philosopher-historian,
whose concepts of normality, deviance and the exercise of social and political
control profound influenced psychiatry and penology in many countries and
whose modes of thought and post-Marxist politics strongly affected French
intellectuals, especially the "new philosophers"; of cancer; in Paris. He
began by examining the concept of insanity, arguing in Madness and
Civilization (1961) that society uses such ideas to impose normative standards
of behavior. In The Birth of the Clinic (1963), The Order of Things (1966) and
his unfinished, multivolume History of Sexuality, he reasoned that "power and
knowledge directly imply one another" and that modern society seeks ever
greater control through greater knowledge of individuals.
                                                                              
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