1. Introduction
Michel Foucault (1926–84) was one of the most striking thinkers and theorists of science in the second half of the 20th century, whose works encompass a varied and wide diapason of creativity. After his education he was a philosopher (1948) and a psychologist (1949), who obtained a PhD (1961) in social sciences. He built his university career in France, Brazil, Tunisia, made academic visits to Japan and the US, and from 1968 he lived and worked11The most famous bibliography of his works in the period 1954-1984 were processed by: J. Lagrange (1994) in French and M. Karskens (2019) in English. in Paris (Collège de France) from 1968. In addition to being responsible for the rise of Western philosophy, medicine and history in the domain of the discovery of material practices and relationships of power, he is also significant for the development of urban planning and theoretical issues of geography, although he spoke directly about geography in an interview with the journal Herodote22Questions to Michel Foucault about geography, 2012.. At the same time, this Foucault relevance and popularity in geography is best spoken by significant opuses of modern geographers. This was first recognized by: P. Claval (1981; 1998) who pointed to the importance of his work on the growing popularity of epistemology and scientific evangelism in his geography, but also emphasized how control imperatives others oppose and when it intended to put population under surveillance, space must be compartmentalized, while E. Soja (1984) apostrophed Foucault’s warning of the emergence of the epoch of space and the shaping of a highly postmodern and critical human geography that boldly reasserted the interpretive significance of space into historically privileged prohibitions of modern critical thought. During the 1990s, C. Philo (1991) presented his geography as more open to theoretical representations of space, territoriality and social reproduction, D. Gregory (1998; 2015) wrote about the importance of Foucault’s work for the geography of power, knowledge and space while R. Peet (1998) incorporated post-structuralist studies on his geography into the distinctive book Modern Geographical Thought . During the 2000s, Elden (2001) presented Foucault’s archaeology and genealogy in excellent Mapping of the present , and then, with Crampton (2007), he edited the most complete collection of geographical works on Foucault; Meusburger, Gregory and Suarsana edited a book on the geography of knowledge and power (2015), and the distinctive encyclopedic depictions of his work were written by Huxley (2009) and Woodward (2009). The specificity of this is the South Slovenian languages, because the geographical literature on Foucault in these languages was dominantly created by sociologists and other scientists, which speaks of the interdisciplinary of his subject of study, but also about the lack of philosophical education and interest of geographers.