Michel Foucault, n.Definitions

Michel Foucault is not attacking reason but rather showing how a historical form of rationality has operated.

Michel Foucault is not just interested in making an account of his own present, but rather he aimed to show how critical engaging of the past transforms the present, whenever that present might be.

Michel Foucault is not a historian, but a new kind of map-maker, maps made for use not to mirror the terrain.

Michel Foucault is not offering a totalizing critique of one particular age. Rather, he was interested in understanding how a society produces subjects and, in doing so, constitutes itself.

Michel Foucault is not just interested in making an account of his own present, but rather he aims to show how critical engaging of the past transforms the present, whenever that present might be.

Michel Foucault is guilty of reducing moral-practical learning to mechanisms of power and is thus insensitive to the highly ambivalent content of cultural and social modernity.

Michel Foucault's work is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault.

Michel Foucault is not offering a totalizing critique of one particular age. Rather, he is interested in understanding how a society produces subjects and, in doing so, constitutes itself.