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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Michel Foucault, Wac aw Sierpi ski, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Zygmunt Bauman, Jan ukasiewicz, Leszek Ko akowski, Stanis aw Grabski, Jerzy Szacki, Edward Lipi ski, Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz, Jan Niecis aw Baudouin de Courtenay, Milan Mogu, Grigol Peradze, George M. von Furstenberg, Leon Petrazycki, Roman Rybarski, Wojciech Rubinowicz, Joachim Lelewel, Krzysztof Kopczy ski, Maria Ossowska, Elliott Leyton, Leopold Infeld, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Henryk Jab o ski, Marek Siemek, D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi, Magdalena roda, Georgy Voronoy, Jadwiga Staniszkis, Karol Borsuk, Benedykt Dybowski, Tadeusz Stefan Zieli ski, Andrzej Trautman, Oskar Halecki, Wac aw Gajewski, Andrzej Mostowski, Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar, Szymon Rudnicki, Szymon Askenazy, Jerzy Wiatr, Andrzej Kajetan Wroblewski, Tomasz Na cz, Stanis aw Ossowski, Zygmunt Vogel, Stanis aw Srokowski, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Agnieszka Graff, Wac aw Maciejowski, Juliusz Bardach, Zbigniew Szafra ski, Otto M. Nikodym, Jozef Bielawski, Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii, Samuel Dickstein, Feliks Pawe Jarocki, Pawe piewak, Alfred Soko owski, Jan Stanis aw Bystro, Tadeusz Wa ek-Czarnecki, Marcin Kubiak, Andrzej Bia ynicki-Birula. Excerpt: Michel Foucault (French pronunciation: ), born Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 - 25 June 1984), was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas. He held a chair at the College de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and lectured at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Berkeley. Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. His writings on power, knowledge, and...