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Who influenced Michel Foucault?

  • Karl Marx

    German-born philosopher (1818–1883)

    Influenced 95

    Influenced by 3

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)

    Influenced 78

    Influenced by 16

  • Immanuel Kant

    German philosopher (1724–1804) of the Enlightenment

    Influenced 78

    Influenced by 14

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    German philosopher (1844–1900)

    Influenced 71

    Influenced by 67

  • Plato

    Greek philosopher (c. 427 – 348 BC)

    Influenced 62

    Influenced by 7

  • Martin Heidegger

    German philosopher (1889–1976)

    Influenced 59

    Influenced by 13

  • Sigmund Freud

    Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)

    Influenced 39

    Influenced by 0

  • Edmund Husserl

    German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)

    Influenced 33

    Influenced by 6

  • Gilles Deleuze

    French philosopher (1925–1995)

    Influenced 33

    Influenced by 29

  • William S. Burroughs

    American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)

    Influenced 26

    Influenced by 2

  • Jacques Lacan

    French psychoanalyst and writer (1901–1981)

    Influenced 21

    Influenced by 4

  • Claude Lévi-Strauss

    French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

    Influenced 20

    Influenced by 4

  • Louis Althusser

    French Marxist philosopher (1918–1990)

    Influenced 12

    Influenced by 8

  • Gaston Bachelard

    French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 3

  • Ferdinand de Saussure

    Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 0

  • Georges Bataille

    French intellectual and literary figure

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 9

  • Karl Jaspers

    German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 0

  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty

    French phenomenological philosopher

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 3

  • Georges Canguilhem

    French philosopher (1904-1995)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 13

  • Ernst Cassirer

    German philosopher

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 0

  • Maurice Blanchot

    French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (1907–2003)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 0

  • Eugène Minkowski

    French psychiatrist

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 1

  • Georges Dumézil

    French philologist (1898-1986)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Jean Hyppolite

    French philosopher

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 3

  • Jean-Toussaint Desanti

    French philosopher

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Ludwig Binswanger

    Swiss psychiatrist and essayist (1881-1966)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 1

  • Gayle Rubin

    American cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • Pierre Hadot

    French historian and philosopher (1922–2010)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Raymond Roussel

    French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast (1877-1933)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

Who was influenced by Michel Foucault?

  • Gilles Deleuze

    French philosopher (1925–1995)

    Influenced 33

    Influenced by 29

  • Jacques Derrida

    French philosopher (1930–2004)

    Influenced 16

    Influenced by 19

  • Edward Said

    Palestinian-American professor (1935–2003)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 2

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 16

  • Judith Butler

    American philosopher and gender studies philosopher (born 1956)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 1

  • Antonio Negri

    Italian political philosopher (1933–2023)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 5

  • Samuel R. Delany

    American author and literary critic

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 15

  • Byung-Chul Han

    German philosopher of South Korean origin

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 6

  • Gayle Rubin

    American cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • Hubert Dreyfus

    American philosopher

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 5

  • Nancy Fraser

    American philosopher

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • Achille Mbembe

    Cameroonian philosopher and political scientist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 10

  • Alain Damasio

    French writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 3

  • Arturo Escobar

    Colombian anthropologist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Axel Honneth

    German philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 16

  • Bernard Bernier

    Canadian anthropologist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 3

  • Darío Sztajnszrajber

    Argentinian speaker, journalist and philosophy teacher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Eugene Thacker

    American philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 10

  • Giorgio Agamben

    Italian philosopher (b. 1942)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Ivane Amirkhanashvili

    Georgian critic

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Jamie Heckert

    sociologist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 5

  • Jasbir Puar

    American academic (born 1967)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Jürgen Mümken

    German theorist of post-anarchism

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Paul Rabinow

    American anthropologist (1944-2021)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Pierre Raymond

    French philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 12

  • Prezident

    German rapper

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 6

  • Roberto Esposito

    Italian philosopher, who is important for his work in biopolitics (1950-)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Talal Asad

    anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Teresa de Lauretis

    Italian academic

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Vladimir Safatle

    Brazilian philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 8

  • Yves Charles Zarka

    French philosopher and essayist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Éric Alliez

    French philosopher (1957-)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4