Faubion, James. “Michel Foucault”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Jan. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michel-Foucault. Education and career The son and grandson of a physician, Michel Foucault was born to a solidly bourgeois family. He resisted what he regarded as the provincialism of his upbringing and his native country, and his career was marked by frequent sojourns abroad. A distinguished …