Michel Foucault
Contemporary France Post-structuralism
Biography
French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.
Life Dates
Born: October 15, 1926
Died: June 25, 1984
Notable Quotes
"Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting."
"Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere."
"I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning."
"Where there is power, there is resistance."
"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does."