Foucault's relation to Heidegger is a matter of considerable difficulty ; Foucault acknowledged Heidegger as a philosopher whom he read but never wrote about.

They also point out the specificity of many kritiks in relation to policy comparison and implementation ( such as Foucault's contributions to our understanding of mental health care or Agamben's relevant contributions to civil liberties ).

# Power / ignorance, or power / stupidity ( Graeber explores a possible theory of the relation of power not with knowledge, but with ignorance and stupidity, in explicit opposition to Foucault's theories of power and knowledge.

It marks a turning in Foucault's thought from phenomenology toward structuralism.

Foucault's author function is the idea that an author exists only as a function of a written work, a part of its structure, but not necessarily part of the interpretive process.

Expanding upon Foucault's position, Alexander Nehamas writes that Foucault suggests " an author [...] is whoever can be understood to have produced a particular text as we interpret it ", not necessarily who penned the text.

Foucault's interpretation of governance is also very important in constructing theories of transnational power structure.

Michel Foucault's concept of discourse is closely related to social rules as it offers a possible explanation how these rules are shaped and change.

For example, Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization is both a history and an inspection of cultural attitudes about madness.

The novel is mentioned at the very end of Michel Foucault's Life of infamous men.

The more common attempts to bracket out Foucault's writings on Iran as " miscalculations ," reminds some authors of what Foucault himself had criticized in his well known 1969 essay, " What is an Author?

Foucault's first biographer, Didier Eribon, described the philosopher as " a complex, many-sided character ", and that " under one mask there is always another ".

It is Foucault's only book-length work on literature.

The book is among Foucault's most successful and influential works.

The volume was almost complete before Foucault's death and a copy of it is privately held in the Foucault archive.

This is one of the ways that Foucault's work is linked to critical theory.

Philosopher Richard Rorty has argued that Foucault's ' archaeology of knowledge ' is fundamentally negative, and thus fails to adequately establish any ' new ' theory of knowledge per se.

In the northwest corner of the cathedral grounds is Copernicus ' tower, and in the southwest corner an octagonal building with a square bell tower and a small planetarium and a Foucault's pendulum.

The Foucault pendulum ( ), or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, is a simple device conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.

Foucault's ' episteme ' is too narrow and abstract, not social enough.

Michel Foucault's use of ' technologies of discourse ' and ' mechanisms of power ' describes how deliberation is either foreclosed or is a product of a series of technologies of discourse which produce a semblance of agency through the reproductions of power as they occur between individual subjects.

* Cagliostro is frequently alluded to in Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum.

This displacement of discourse constitutes one of the bases of Foucault's thought: discourse is not tied to the subject, rather the " subject " is a construction of discourse.

* In Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum, Alamut is described in detail towards the end of the novel.

This relates directly back to Machiavelli's The Prince, and Foucault's aforementioned conceptions of truth and power.

A general discussion by Anders Persson of various aspects of the coriolis effect, including Foucault's Pendulum and Taylor columns.

In this analysis, he heavily drew upon Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish.

Freemasonic writers added their own speculations in the 19th century, and further fictional embellishments have been added in popular novels such as Ivanhoe, Foucault's Pendulum, The Lost symbol, and The Da Vinci Code ; modern movies such as National Treasure and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ; and video games such as Assassin's Creed and Broken Sword.

He refined Foucault's methods in 1926 using improved rotating mirrors to measure the time it took light to make a round trip from Mt.

As the seat of power, Coons has also been compared to Foucault's " panopticon.

For this reason, Althusser's " anti-humanism " and Foucault's statements were criticized, by Jürgen Habermas and others, for misunderstanding that this led to a fatalist conception of social determinism.

In Foucault's opinion, the state had no essence.

Another important development was that of Foucault's analysis of the historical and scientific thought in The Order of Things and his study of power and corruption within the " science " of madness.

It remains a seminal work of conspiracy fiction, predating by years such novels as Foucault's Pendulum and The Da Vinci Code.

In Discursive Struggles Within Social Welfare: Restaging Teen Motherhood, Iara Lessa summarizes Foucault's definition of discourse as “ systems of thoughts composed of ideas, attitudes, courses of action, beliefs and practices that systematically construct the subjects and the worlds of which they speak.

In 1940, Foucault's mother took him from his previous school and enrolled him in the Collège Saint-Stanislas, a strict Roman Catholic institution run by the Jesuits ; here, he remained lonely, with few friends.

The École Normale Supérieure's doctor examined Foucault's state of mind, suggesting that his suicidal tendencies emerged from the distress surrounding his homosexuality, which at the time was legal but socially taboo in France.

It was critically acclaimed by the likes of Maurice Blochot, Michel Serres, Roland Barthes, Gaston Bachelard, and Fernand Braudel, but much to Foucault's upset, largely ignored in the leftist press.

Much of this thesis consisted of Foucault's discussion of textual dating – an " archaeology of the Kantian text " – although he rounded off the work with an evocation of Nietzche, who had become his biggest philosophical influence.

The university's philosophy department was then under the control of Jules Vuillemin ( 1920 – 2001 ), who had chosen him for the position after becoming impressed by Foucault's then unpublished doctoral dissertation.

It was in this stage of his life that Foucault met the young philosopher Daniel Defert ( 1937 –), and they would enter into a non-monogamous relationship that would last for the rest of Foucault's life.

In May 1963 he published a work entitled Raymond Rousell, which was devoted to the eponymous poet, novelist and playwright, who was one of Foucault's favourite authors.