Michel Focault was a French philosopher, social theorist, historian of ideas, and literary critic. He was an intelectual ahead of his time, a visionary in all ways. His work converges into the way and importance of "the power" in human realtionships, for this reason he looked into the most common topics of our times.
His most important books are:
As you can see Madness is important in Focault´s work. He claimed that insisting on giving a definition of Madness is a caracteristic of oun society, and we should challenge this.
Something similar happend with the infamous persons and things, with the sexuality, and the prision.
Michel Foucault was a researcher of freaks, because he himself was a freak in his time. He was a homosexual and was the first famous intellectual that died of SIDA.
Foucault's ideas have generated diverse lines of thinking and research, his focus on the bodies and power, have influenced all social sciences, being precursor of gender and sexualities studies, as well as the critical studies.
"Discipline and Punish" forecasted the evolution of Control Mechanisms in our Societies, making questions and describing the way the contemporany society produces and reproduces these mechanisms.
In this sense, it´s very interesting to lisento the conversation in 1971, given to a TV Show in france, between Michel Focault and Noam Chomsky, to understand the ideas of both, in to the third debate of the International Philosophers' Project, "Human Nature: Justice versus Power".
I hope that you enjoy it.
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