Bruno Latour. Bruno Latour (/ləˈtʊər/; French: [latuʁ]; born 22 June 1947) is a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.[3] He is especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS).[4] After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became Professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab.
He retired from several university activities in 2017.[5] He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.[6][7] Latour's monographs earned him a 10th place among most-cited book authors in the humanities and social sciences for the year 2007.[10]
Michel Foucault. Born in Poitiers, France to an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV and then the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser.
After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness. After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced two more significant publications, The Birth of the Clinic and The Order of Things, which displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, a theoretical movement in social anthropology from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories were examples of a historiographical technique Foucault was developing which he called "archaeology". Early life[edit] Youth: 1926–1946[edit] Michel Foucault Beyond Good and Evil 1993) POWER, ABSURD AND REVOLT: ON CAMUS AND FOUCAULT. Michel Foucault. Michel Foucault AKA Paul-Michel Foucault Born: 15-Oct-1926Birthplace: Poitiers, FranceDied: 26-Jun-1984Location of death: Paris, FranceCause of death: AIDSRemains: Buried, Cimetière du Vendeuvre, Vienne, France Gender: MaleRace or Ethnicity: WhiteSexual orientation: GayOccupation: Philosopher, Scholar, Essayist.
