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Michel Paul Foucault
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- Michel Paul Foucault (1926–1984) was a French philosopher and social theorist. Trained initially in philosophy and later in psychology, he turned to a critical analysis of modernity (including its conception and practices of knowledge and its practices of the self), the constitution of power, the development of modern institutions, and the deployment of discourses and practices of sexuality. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Foucault, Michel Paul]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Michel_Paul_Foucault
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