Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault, generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic. He was born on October 15, 1926 in Poitiers, France.

Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions who became one of the most influential and controversial scholars of the post-World War II period. His best-known works are Discipline and Punish and the multi-volume, but incomplete, The History of Sexuality.

Foucauldian discourse analysis is a form of discourse analysis, focusing on power relationships in society as expressed through language and practices and based on his theories.