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Michel Foucault  

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  • Michel Paul Foucault (1926–1984), social historian, philosopher, psychologist, and political activist, was one of the most original of the post–World War II French social theorists. Though Foucault is commonly considered a post-modern or poststructuralist, he was an independent thinker, whose writings cannot be easily classified. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Foucault, Michel]

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