General University of Maine Publications
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Flyer
Publication Date
3-12-2025
Abstract/ Summary
Michel Foucault defies definition and description. One can signify him as a French post-structuralist who studied power, knowledge, and the self in a career spanning the West’s brightest universities. Edward W. Said remarked that Foucault “was neither simply a historian, nor a philosopher, nor a literary critic, but all of those things together, and then more still.” Even today, the ideas of Foucault continue to animate discussion of geopolitical conflict – most notably on the occupation of Palestine. His methodologies reshaped the field of literary theory in the English-speaking world, while single works like Discipline and Punish still undergird entire subfields like Critical Legal Studies.
Repository Citation
Allen, Doug, "Socialist and Marxist Studies Series Michael Foucault in the 21st Century : His Relevance Today" (2025). General University of Maine Publications. 3771.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/univ_publications/3771
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