“... philosophy going back to the Greeks. I had to read Derrida, Irigaray, Kristeva, Cixous, Foucault, Lacan, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari. But it isn’t theory that the narrator and her friends want, and it doesn’t quite seem to be art either. Rather than focusing on the novels of Virginia Woolf, as agreed with her thesis adviser, the narrator ...”

“... arguments inhibiting literary-historical study has been the one deriving more or less lazily from Foucault: that the ‘lesbian’ was invented by turn-of-the-century sexologists like Havelock Ellis, a special case of the more general proposition that gender is a construct of discourse. Castle finds this line unconvincing: was it really all ‘a matter of a ...”

“... sectional power no less than they serve their clients; and the disciplines they profess, as Foucault stressed, themselves form discourses of power. The danger is that in pursuing such demystification we slip into the equally moralistic language of conspiracy. At the very least, this shorthand may conflate outcomes and intentions, professions and ...”

“... it is one which only common sense can solve. He is dismissive of theory and waves away Freud and Foucault brusquely, almost contemptuously. There is, I feel, a kind of ingratitude here, especially since he complains in his opening chapter that ‘public behaviour towards gay men and women has changed enormously, but private ideas about homosexuality are much ...”

“... book, he openly mourns Roland Barthes, who died in 1980, Paul de Man, who died in 1983, Michel Foucault, who died in 1984, and a host of others, including Edmund Jabès (1991), Louis Marin (1992), Sarah Kofman (1994), Emmanuel Levinas (1995) and Jean-François Lyotard (1998). In the last of these essays, for Lyotard, it is not his own death that ...”

“... a philosophy or religion that presents grave problems to the modern understanding. Comte was the Foucault and the Althusser of his day rolled into one and multiplied by ten, a prophet then quite unignorable but now almost entirely devoid of interest. Though Harrison had the usual religious struggle – he read Strauss and decided against Pusey and Newman ...”

“... to be regarded as immature and consigned to a pre-paradigm era. The discontinuity theses of Michel Foucault have lent themselves to a similar dualistic rigidity. Witness the use made of his ‘epistemes’ by N.C. Gillespie, who, in his recent study of Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation (1979), implied that there were only two epistemes worth talking ...”

“... one of the main panels was largely devoted to showing that the Author was a lot less dead than Foucault.) Foakes’s purpose isn’t merely to refute and dismiss the critical vogues of the last decade, but to meet their challenges (or some of them) head-on, and see which items of his preferred interpretative equipment can be salvaged for further useful ...”

“... social and sexual toleration. We approve empowerment and being non-judgmental. But as the Foucault camp used to say – from a rather different angle – such tolerance is itself insidiously repressive. It is not the bourgeois who exercise it today, but the wider and more indeterminate Class of the ideologically sound. So there was no question of ...”

“... religion’ and that could be said of Still Life also. Byatt has read her Mallarmé and Foucault and is not unaware of the supposed irrelevance and supersession of the traditional English novel – the novel of property, the novel of things. In Still Life these objections to English fiction are voiced by Raphael Faber, supposedly a leading young ...”

“... there is a two-way interaction between these processes.’ So, for example, the writings of Michel Foucault are to be understood as ‘in part stories about the connection between certain kinds of description coming into being or going out of existence, and certain kinds of people coming into being or going out of existence’. On this reading, the category of ...”

“... Caroline Bynum, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Christopher Craft, Thomas Laqueur, and, of course, Michel Foucault. When the implications of this work are fully absorbed, it will be more difficult to write of lesbian nuns in Renaissance Italy, but it will be easier to understand the relationship between demonic possession and illicit sexual acts and hence easier to ...”

“... a revolution and kill the king. The school of French historians associated with the late Michel Foucault sees these carnivalesque and robust Ménétras ultimately subsumed in the discourse about human behaviour developed by scientists and social scientists. This discourse represents a form of power which was all the more insidious because it emanated, not ...”

“... hegemony over treatment and the public discourse has already been charted by Andrew Scull, Michel Foucault and David Rothman. Roger Smith’s contribution is to show that the legal conceptions of mens rea and free will provided the basis for resisting medical claims to hegemoney, not only within the courtroom, but in ‘public opinion’ at large. The ...”

“... own isolation and lack of curiosity are themselves notorious, and there now exists a Derrida and a Foucault who are Anglo-Saxon and quite different from the ones who write in their country of origin. When you mention this in London, though, they immediately tell you you are daydreaming, and start joking about how this is the ideology which has worked havoc ...”