Michel Foucault
1926 to 1984
8 documented presences
7 places
Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Michel Foucault across 7 places, from 1960 to 1984. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 to 25 June 1984) was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Michel Foucault was documented, and when
October 1960month
Blaise Pascal Universityattested
“In October 1960, Foucault took a tenured post in philosophy at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, commuting to the city every week from Paris, where he lived in a high-rise block on the rue du Dr Finlay.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
October 1960month
Parisattested
“In October 1960, Foucault took a tenured post in philosophy at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, commuting to the city every week from Paris, where he lived in a high-rise block on the rue du Dr Finlay.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
April 1978month
Uenoharaattested
“In April 1978, Foucault traveled to Japan, where he studied Zen Buddhism under Omori Sogen at the Seionji temple in Uenohara.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
April 1978month
Japanattested
“In April 1978, Foucault traveled to Japan, where he studied Zen Buddhism under Omori Sogen at the Seionji temple in Uenohara.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
October 1980month
University of California, Berkeleyattested
“In October 1980, Foucault became a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, giving the Howison Lectures on "Truth and Subjectivity", while in November he lectured at the Humanities Institute at New York University.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
October 1980month
New York Universityattested
“In October 1980, Foucault became a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, giving the Howison Lectures on "Truth and Subjectivity", while in November he lectured at the Humanities Institute at New York University.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
October 1980month
New Yorkattested
“In October 1980, Foucault became a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, giving the Howison Lectures on "Truth and Subjectivity", while in November he lectured at the Humanities Institute at New York University.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
10 June 1984exact date
Parisattested
“Foucault entered Paris' Hôpital de la Salpêtrière—the same institution that he had studied in Madness and Civilisation—on 10 June 1984, with neurological symptoms complicated by sepsis.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
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Places Michel Foucault is documented in
Paris2 presences · 1960 to 1984Japan1 presence · 1978New York1 presence · 1980New York University1 presence · 1980University of California, Berkeley1 presence · 1980
Blaise Pascal University1 presence · 1960
Uenohara1 presence · 1978
Other places tied to Michel Foucault in the record
In each of these, a source puts Michel Foucault and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Michel Foucault was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1945year
Parismentioned
“Rejecting his father's wishes that he become a surgeon, in 1945 Foucault went to Paris, where he enrolled in one of the country's most prestigious secondary schools, which was also known as the Lycée Henri-IV.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
1948year
Sainte-Anne Hospital Centermentioned
“Prone to self-harm, Foucault allegedly attempted suicide in 1948; his father sent him to see the psychiatrist Jean Delay at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
1952year
Soviet Unionmentioned
“He soon became dissatisfied with the bigotry that he experienced within the party's ranks; he personally faced homophobia and was appalled by the antisemitism exhibited during the 1952–53 "doctors' plot" in the Soviet Union.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
1953 to 1954period
Parismentioned
“In Paris, he shared a flat with his brother, who was training to become a surgeon, but for three days in the week commuted to the northern town of Lille, teaching psychology at the Université de Lille from 1953 to 1954.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
August 1953month
Italymentioned
“In August 1953, Foucault and Barraqué holidayed in Italy, where the philosopher immersed himself in Untimely Meditations (1873–1876), a set of four essays by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
1958 to 1960period
Uppsalamentioned
“Various positions were available in West Germany, and so Foucault relocated to the Institut français Hamburg (where he served as director in 1958–1960), teaching the same courses he had given in Uppsala and Warsaw.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
October 1958month
Warsawmentioned
“Again at Dumézil's behest, in October 1958 Foucault arrived in Warsaw, the capital of the Polish People's Republic, and took charge of the University of Warsaw's Centre Français.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
1959year
Hamburgmentioned
“Foucault's secondary thesis (), written in Hamburg between 1959 and 1960, was a translation and commentary on German philosopher Immanuel Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798); the thesis was titled Introduction à l'A…”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
1962year
Collège de Francementioned
“Foucault then took Vuillemin's job when the latter was elected to the Collège de France in 1962.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
1962year
Collmentioned
“Foucault then took Vuillemin's job when the latter was elected to the Collège de France in 1962.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
September 1966month
Tunisiamentioned
“Both Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir attacked Foucault's ideas as "bourgeois", while Foucault retaliated against their Marxist beliefs by proclaiming that "Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought as a fish exists in water; that is, it…”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
June 1967month
Tunismentioned
“Foucault was in Tunis during the anti-government and pro-Palestinian riots that rocked the city in June 1967, and which continued for a year.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
1968year
Parismentioned
“In 1968, Foucault returned to Paris, moving into an apartment on the Rue de Vaugirard.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
November 1969month
Collmentioned
“In November 1969, when an opening became available, Foucault was elected to the Collège, though with opposition by a large minority.”
source: Wikipedia: Michel Foucault
December 1972month
1973year
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1978year
1978year
1979year
1981 to 1983period
1982year
1983year
Documented at the same place, the same year
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