“... of the truth, and to the expression of opinion. His micro-politics, to borrow a term from Foucault, focuses on the verbal behaviour of journalists as, drunk with the heedless power of their word-processors, their expense accounts, their hand-outs from the Defence Department, they give themselves endless prizes and turn themselves – like Walter ...”

“... first brings to mind is a mode of cultural criticism: it evokes the work of Barthes, Foucault and Lyotard etc. For this reason the ‘Post-Modernist’ novel, as defined in Linda Hutcheon’s A Poetics of Post-Modernism or earlier in David Lodge’s The Modes of Modern Writing, has the air of being a poor relation, coming in on the coat-tails of ...”

“... and failing to wear a seat belt). With a better education, she might have liked Hardy and read Foucault with interest. ‘She won’t go quietly, that’s the problem,’ Diana said to 15 million people in the Panorama interview, slipping naturally into the third person. It was more like a trailer than a warning. Still, you wonder, is there really anything ...”

“... and histories. Said’s great study takes its cue from the many-sided and endlessly absorbing Foucault, in its inexhaustible conviction and its curiosity about how a body of knowledge – in this case, Orientalism – can involve the exercise of power. Much postcolonial theory, in turn, has taken its cue from Said and this strain of ...”

“... was teaching philosophy at Vincennes alongside a roster of soixante-huitard theorists, including Foucault, who was briefly head of the philosophy department. For a sexual revolution with a full-blown political revolution in its sights, Wilhelm Reich’s thinking was indispensable. In Reich’s view, capitalism required the imposition of patriarchal sexual ...”

“... logical enough outcome’) are briskly explained, Barthes, Lacan and Derrida rush by, Foucault and Althüsser get a rather breathless mention as part of the ‘post-modern landscape’. Appleyard sometimes appears to think of soi disant Post-Modern art as a sort of re-run of Baroque – which is to describe one period in terms of another of which ...”

“... Three times now, Scruton has sanctimoniously assaulted a major thinker of our age – Michel Foucault, Isaiah Berlin, A.J. Ayer – in words that anyone of sensibility, friend, acquaintance, enemy, would have dropped down dead rather than see appear above his ...”

“... ideology. He has no strong political commitments. He does not, despite his title, preach Weber or Foucault at you; indeed heeven puts a joke in his novel to show his exasperation with his students who insist on serving all statements about power with Foucault’s sauce. Schama is a family man. That may seem irrelevant to ...”

“... pouvoir, which in addition to the young Marx has indebted itself to George Canguilhem and Michel Foucault, has by no means traversed all the routes to medicine’s heart. The Right, too, has probed the sources of its current quickening. The fervent Catholicism of Ivan Illich, for instance, has remorselessly questioned the medically unquestionable – the ...”

“... Few philosophers have adopted a subjective stance towards science (Feyerabend and perhaps Kuhn and Foucault), and such writings are best taken as an antidote to the more extreme versions of objectivism. Ethics is a more suitable case for relativistic treatment, but towards the end of his book Putnam claims the same mind-dependent objectivity for the system of ...”

“... his notion of biopolitics, or the administration of human life as so much vital matter, from Foucault, and it becomes his version of the famous Hegelian thesis, proposed by Alexandre Kojève in the 1930s, that ‘the end of history’ has come – the end of man in any humanist sense. ‘The only task that still seems to retain some seriousness is the ...”

“... oeuvre: bewilderment. This response would certainly have surprised Deleuze’s friend Michel Foucault, who wrote in 1970: ‘Perhaps one day, this century will be known as Deleuzian.’ Of all the thinkers who emerged in postwar France and are now loosely – and unhelpfully – coralled into the collective ...”

“... can lead to distortions when measuring individual people who are very muscular or very short. As Foucault argued, patients’ bodies are often examined not in relation to their own individual standards of health, but are instead clinical specimens, analysed as examples in big datasets. Galen lived in a world in which health was undeniably fragile: most ...”

“... he would do better to consider the concept of Post-Modernism historically, however. When Michel Foucault was asked about his relation to Post-Modernity in 1983, near the end of his life, he replied: ‘I’ve never clearly understood what was meant in France by the term “modernity” ... But neither do I grasp the kind of problems intended by this term ...”

“... member of that peculiarly French or Parisian set of public persons we can recognise from Sartre or Foucault. We follow him from his birthplace in a one-horse village in the Breton borderlands south of the Loire, up the river to Loches and Tours, where he meets his first master, Roscelin, and then to the foreign territory of France properly speaking, where the ...”