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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Michel Foucault

Born: October 15, 1926
Died: June 25, 1984 (aged 57)
Bio: Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic.
Known for:
- Discipline and Punish (1975)
- The History of Sexuality (1976)
- Madness and Civilization (1961)
- The Order of Things (1966)
- The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)
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