Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984) was a French philosopher and held a chair at the Collège de France, a chair to which he gave the title "The History of Systems of Thought". His writings have had an enormous impact on other scholarly work: Foucault's influence extends across the humanities and social sciences, and across many applied and professional areas of study.

References

• Didier Eribon, Michel Foucault (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1991)
• Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004)- situates Foucault in the context of developments in epistemology and politics since Rousseau and Kant.
• David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault (London: Hutchison, 1993) - this is the most detailed biography of Foucault.
• Stephan Moebius, Die Zauberlehrlinge. Soziologiegeschichte des Collège de Sociologie, 2006, Konstanz (about influence of Bataille on Foucault)
• James Miller, The Passion of Michel Foucault (London: HarperCollins, 1993) - a number of scholars have expressed reservations in relation to some of the sensational claims made in this biography.
• Janet Afary & Kevin B. Anderson. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution. (University of Chicago Press, 2005) - details Foucault's trips to Iran, and publishes his essays on Iran in English for the first time.