DIED. Michel Foucault, 57, opaque, paradoxical French philosopher-historian, whose concepts of normality, deviance and the exercise of social and political control profoundly influenced psychiatry and penology in many countries and whose modes of thought and post-Marxist politics strongly affected French intellectuals, especially the "new philosophers"; of cancer; in Paris. He began by examining the concept of insanity, arguing in Madness and Civilization (1961) that society uses such ideas to impose normative standards of behavior. In The Birth of the Clinic (1963), The Order of Things (1966) and his unfinished, multivolume History of...
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