For 10 points, name this French thinker who wrote The History of Sexuality, Madness and Civilization, and Discipline and Punish.
This thinker questioned the idea of Victorian England as a nation of "imperial prudes" and discussed the ways governments make use of human activity, or "biopower." He argued that leprosy was overtaken in medieval society by a concept he analyzed through the "ship of fools" metaphor. He discusses the execution of Robert-François Damiens and Bentham's Panopticon in antoher work. For 10 points, name this French thinker who wrote The History of Sexuality, Madness and Civilization, and Discipline and Punish.
This thinker questioned the idea of Victorian England as a nation of "imperial prudes" and discussed the ways governments make use of human activity, or "biopower."
Michel Foucault