English

Proper noun

Foucault

1. Michel Foucault
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 5 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

     There are many “Foucaults” — whether they are all texts, or features in a network of institutional power, a régime of truth and knowledge, or the discourse of the author and his works.

See also

• Foucault’s pendulum
• Foucauldian

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.ko/

Proper noun

Foucault

1. A surname​.
2. (physics) the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
3. (philosophy) the French philosopher Michel Foucault