FRA9 FILE · Ideas & philosophers
Michel Foucault
How institutions shape what an era calls normal.
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key points: Power · Knowledge · Prison · Norme
The central idea
Michel Foucault becomes clearer through a few anchors: Pouvoir · Savoir · Prison · Norme. This page connects facts, people and places without turning the subject into a lecture.
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