Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

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Foucault as educator

What was exemplary in Foucault's life?

What can a reader learn from and through the life experience Foucault had?
What effects for good and ill may his life and work have on someone who takes him as an exemplary figure?
What were the limiting factors constraining him?

Foucault's ideas and their formative power

What are the key concepts, the ideas that Foucault developed in his work?
What was the formative power these concepts offered Foucault's contemporaries? Why did they have meaning, or fail to have meaning, to others in the historical context of his time?
What formative power do his ideas have in the historical context of our time? Of any time?
What disabilities might his ideas impart?