One work by this man claims that the enduring importance of kinship is due to blood being a "reality with a symbolic function".
One work by this man claims that the enduring importance of kinship is due to blood being a "reality with a symbolic function". That work by this thinker rejects the "repressive hypothesis" in the opening section "We Other Victorians". Another book by this author of The Will to Knowledge outlines the transformation of biology, economics, and linguistics during the Renaissance, Classical, and contemporary (*) epistemes. That book opens with an extended examination of a Velazquez painting. This man followed the violent-to-regimented evolution of torture in a work that compares the modern prison system to Bentham's Panopticon. For 10 points, name this post-structuralist thinker who wrote History of Sexuality, The Order of Things, and Discipline and Punish.
One work by this man claims that the enduring importance of kinship is due to blood being a "reality with a symbolic function".
Michel Foucault [or Paul-Michel Foucault]