# Michel Foucault (@michel-foucault)

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French historian and philosopher who studied how practices of knowledge, institutions, and power shape objects of inquiry and kinds of subjects. His work moved through archaeology, genealogy, discipline, government, sexuality, and practices of self-formation.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Michel Foucault's public record._

## Topics

- [Discipline, Power, and Government](/@michel-foucault/discipline-power-and-government.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Subjectivity and Practices of Freedom](/@michel-foucault/subjectivity-and-practices-of-freedom.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Archaeology and Historical Knowledge](/@michel-foucault/archaeology-and-historical-knowledge.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Archaeology](/@michel-foucault/archaeology.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Power and genealogy](/@michel-foucault/genealogy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Ideas and Practice](/@michel-foucault/ideas-and-practice.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Activism and legacy](/@michel-foucault/legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Reception and Legacy](/@michel-foucault/reception-and-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Texts and Historical Context](/@michel-foucault/texts-and-historical-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/
- blog: https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/chaire/michel-foucault-histoire-des-systemes-de-pensee-chaire-statutaire
- blog: https://iep.utm.edu/foucault/

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "michel-foucault", "question": "…"}`.