Michel Foucault
Professor of the History of Ideas, Coll
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
— 4:10 PMUniversity of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
About Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian, is famous for his critical study of social institutions including prison systems, the human sciences and medicine. German philosopher and classical philologist Friedrich Nietzsche provided Foucault with a longstanding inspiration. Aligned with Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, Foucault’s work on a “genealogy of knowledge” remains influential for philosophers, social theorists and many other contemporary thinkers.