Who the Hell is Michel Foucault?

For students, teachers and curious minds, our carefully structured jargon-free series helps you really get to grips with brilliant intellectuals and their inherently complex theories. Written in an accessible and engaging way, each book takes you through the life and influences of these great thinkers, then takes a deep dive into three of their key theories in plain English.Smart thinking made easy!

A philosopher, social theorist, historian and literary critic, Michel Foucault is one of the most influential scholars of his time. Focusing primarily on the relationship between knowledge and power, he looked at how power is used in our society to control and define knowledge. Who the Hell is Michel Foucault? looks at who this brilliant and controversial thinker was as a person, and who influenced him along the way, before really getting to grips with his original ideas on Birth of the Human Sciences; Technologies of Power; and Practices of the Self.