Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) is not the most often cited of the post-war French philosophers. Yet, radical, nihilistic, prophetic, Baudrillard’s philosophical critique of post-modern society, and specifically his idea of the ‘hyperinformation society’ emanating from...
Key Concept The idea of discourse constitutes a central element of Michel Foucault’s oeuvre, and one of the most readily appropriated Foucaultian terms, such that 'Foucaultian discourse analysis' now constitutes an academic field in its own right. This post therefore...
Carolina Rediviva Library (Uppsala) where Foucault conducted much of his archaeological work on the history of medicine from 1955–1960 In 1968, Jean Hyppolite,Jean Hyppolite was a key influence on the work of Foucault, particularly with regard to Hyppolite’s...