He claimed that each era has a system of knowledge called an episteme.
This thinker assessed the motives of Philippe Pinel and Samuel Tuke in one book, and noted that the structure of confession was transferred to the therapist's office in a half-complete set of volumes. He claimed that each era has a system of knowledge called an episteme. This author of "What is an Author?" discussed the emptying of leper colonies and the Renaissance image of the Ship of Fools in a work describing the "Great (*) Confinement," a response to un-reason. This archaeologist of knowledge termed the ability to "make live and let die" "bio-power," and compared a surveyed society to the Panopticon prison. For 10 points, name this theorist of discourse, the bald French author of Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish.
This thinker assessed the motives of Philippe Pinel and Samuel Tuke in one book, and noted that the structure of confession was transferred to the therapist's office in a half-complete set of volumes.
Michel Foucault