Abstract
French scholar Michel Foucault (1926-84) is considered as somewhat of a heretic by traditional historians. Three aspects of Foucault's characteristic way of thinking about and writing history are discussed here: questioning the traditional way of writing history based on linearity, totality, and individual consciousness; offering new subjects to be investigated by historians (the history of truth, relation between power and knowledge); and stressing the historical nature of a human being. Foucault's approach to history accords very well with the changes occurring in contemporary historiography.