At the age of 34, Foucault completed his first major work, Madness and Insanity: History of Madness in the Classical Age, as a thesis in 1960. These early ventures lead him into a personal confrontation with societal norms, political values, and accepted ways of thinking that would last the entirety of his professional life.ĭuring the early 1950s, Foucault taught psychology at various institutes in France, after which he traveled and worked across Europe until 1960. As a homosexual in a time when such orientation was heavily frowned upon, Foucault began to explore such sexual expressions as sado-masochism. At this time he flirted with Marxism and was briefly a member of the French Communist Party.
He first received a degree in Psychology in 1949. The evolution of Foucault's thought is a complicated pathway. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (or the original French Surveiller et Punir : Naissance de la Prison) is a 1975 work by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault.
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