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- French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)
How To Use Foucault In A Sentence
- While I think his ethical position is, if uninteresting, unexceptionable enough, his refusal to confront the political connection Foucault makes except with such bland dismissiveness is insufficient precisely because uninteresting. Notes on 'Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality'
- Heidegger's leftist acolytes, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, felt able to sideline his racist and genocidal beliefs while embracing his antihumanism. The Guardian World News
- Indeed, this leads me to a major criticism of Foucault's postmodernism when applied to the media.
- Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison explores how the prison is merely the centerpiece of a much larger carceral system, and that our schools, factories, military barracks, churches, etc, are all based on these same architectural and philosophical principles. Printing: Education
- On Foucault's reading, the worker who criticises his boss uses parrhesia. Let the law save whistleblowers, not silence them | Nick Cohen
- With the advent of post-structuralism in the later 1970s, the attack on the idea of the self was rephrased in terms borrowed from Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan.
- Drawing on themes from Michel Foucault, the team symbolizes its withdrawal of allegiance from the out-moded sociohistorical construct of power and authoritarianism implicit in the state of buoyancy by performing "The Death of Man" in an empty pool. Olympic Notes
- Halperin crystallizes Foucault's definition of sexuality as "an apparatus for constituting human subjects" (How To 88). The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
- Foucault's genealogy proposes a new methodology about origin analysis and power analysis.
- Along the way, she considers the ontological paradox of self-invention and quotes Foucault.