Pierre Nora
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Pierre Charles Nora was a French historian elected to the Académie Française on 7 June 2001. As editor at Éditions Gallimard, he established the Library of Social Sciences in 1966 and the Library of H
Nora in 2011
Michel Foucault
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Paul-Michel Foucault, known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, literary critic, and historian of ideas who analyzed the relationships between power, knowledge, and liberty, and how they are
Pierre Nora
…under Nora's direction many major works of scholarship were published that became landmarks in their respective fields, such as books by Raymond Aron, Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Georges Duby, Georges Dumézil, François Furet and, Jacques Le Goff, and translations of books by Elias Canetti, Ernst Kantorowicz…
Foucault, c. 1970
In the early 1950s, Foucault came under the influence of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who remained a core influence on his work throughout his life.
Foucault adored the work of Raymond Roussel and wrote a literary study of it.
Graves of Michel Foucault, his mother (right) and his father (left) in Vendeuvre-du-Poitou