Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault was a French historian and philosopher, born in Poitiers on October 15, 1926 and associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. He became academically established during the 1960s and was elected in 1969 to the Collège de France, where he was Professor of the History of Systems of Thought until his death. From the 1970s he was politically active and was a founder of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons. His lecture series Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics introduced his ideas on government and governmentality. He died in Paris on June 25, 1984.