Eribon foucault biography of martin luther king

1929-1968

In Focus: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.

Day, the national holiday has never coincided with the inauguration of a non-incumbent president. That changes this year.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated annually on the third Monday in January to mark the late activist’s birthday.

In 2025, the holiday falls on January 20, the same day typically set aside for Inauguration Day every four years.

His theories have been concerned largely with the concepts of power, knowledge and discourse, and his influence is clear in a great deal of post-structuralist.

His theories have been concerned largely with the concepts of power, knowledge and discourse, and his influence is clear in a great deal of post-structuralist.

Nowhere is this curious power/knowledge mechanism of making normal and deviant subjects clearer than in the history of human sexuality, which Foucault discovers.

Director of the French Institute of Hamburg, Germany.

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The article opens up avenues for future research that might investigate the biopolitical elements in Lutheranism as part of a wider dissemination of biopolitics.

Indeed, January 20 is also when Donald Trump will be sworn in as 47^th president.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama previously took presidential oaths of office on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. However, in both cases, the men were starting their second consecutive terms, much quieter occasions than the transfer of power from one president to the next.

Days after King’s assassination in 1968, a campaign for a holiday in his honor began. U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. of Mi