“... erotic subject-matter in a contradictory and sometimes disturbing discourse. Brandon quotes Michel Foucault on the significance of the sexual debate for the 19th century: ‘The “right” to life, to one’s body, to health, to happiness, to the satisfaction of needs, and ... the “right” to discover what one is and all that one can be, this ...”

“... laughable to read writers like Cheever or Updike.’ Instead, students drop names like Derrida, Foucault and Baudrillard. Theory infects every part of Madeleine’s life, as in this exchange with a would-be boyfriend: On the wall of his living room Billy had painted the words Kill the Father. Killing the father was what, in Billy’s opinion, college was ...”

“... of the intellectual certainties of the 1960s and 1970s, setting itself implicitly both against Foucault and against the Sartrean Les Temps modernes. Three volumes of the Lieux de mémoire, whose contents represent about a third of the total, appeared in English under the general title of Realms of Memory between 1996 and 1998. For this, Nora regrouped the ...”

“... primarily a literary critic – Locke, Vico, Freud, Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, De Rougemont, Bataille, Foucault. The poaching is done with any light and any net that comes to hand, and I cannot think these streams ever yielded so much to a single transgressor. At this stage (as Tanner would say) I should offer some account of what kind of achievement this is, but ...”

“... moment in contemporary literary theory’ with the statement: ‘The Absurdist critics (Barthes, Foucault, Derrida) ask these questions, and in asking them, put the Normal critics in the position of having to provide answers which they themselves cannot imagine.’ Yet, four years after those words were written, the questions which the Absurdists posed ...”

“... connection, than of self-fashioning and self-projection. Gluttony is for him what sex is for Foucault, both ‘an instrument and an effect of power’. His notorious girth, the result of overeating, becomes a proud statement both of his professional standing and of his writing style. He wolfs words, devouring the original semiotic systems in which they ...”

“... and narrowed by most contemporary researchers to the study of products of mass consumption. Foucault obscurely meditated about authority or confinement or sex; Erica Rand can make equally weighty points with the aid of Ken’s crotch. Part of a campy Post-Modern genre of gender construction and deconstruction studies, epitomised in the work and persona ...”

“... mercy. Sennett tells us that his book was begun fifteen years ago in collaboration with Michel Foucault. Foucault’s influence is apparent in its interest in power, in its quest for understanding impulses towards abjection and dominance, in its intermittently personal tone, but above all in its preference for almost any ...”

“... a shadow fight with anti-Aufklärer of various hues, during which his good English deserts him and Foucault is forever lurching into view, raving about discursive sets, like a drunk at some hellish critical-philosophical wedding. Sher has an almost Scottish passion for remote kinship. The reader is reminded that Adam Ferguson’s mother was ‘the great-aunt ...”

“... of its time – by which I mean a book of our time. I very much doubt that Pugh is an admirer of Foucault but this book is Foucauldian nonetheless, in the sense that it is less a ‘history’, aimed at recovering times and manners not our own, than a ‘genealogy’, tracking the emergence of our present practices. After all, a world would emerge in which ...”

“... here. There is one history of modern philosophy that takes the form of a bifurcation post-Kant. Foucault described it as a crossroads at which one path leads out of the first Critique (centred on concepts, perceptions, logic and epistemology), the other out of What Is Enlightenment? (centred more on philosophy’s engagement with the ‘human’). But ...”

“... on Sri Lanka. In a similar way, Greenblatt’s essay on Twelfth Night ranges from Galen to Foucault in order to demonstrate ‘a relation between medical and theatrical practice’ and to suggest that ‘Shakespeare discovered how to use the erotic power that the theatre could appropriate.’ The essay ‘Invisible Bullets’, at once concerned with ...”

“... was an exhibition of an incredibly talented black weaver. People asked me how my ideas related to Foucault or Richard Rorty. A painter, Swedish by origin, of great intensity as was his work, talked to me of the problems of South Africa. They were not political problems, he said, they were cultural problems. They were problems of communication and of ...”

“... In an earlier book, Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, Norris resorted to Nietzsche and Foucault in repudiating ‘those systems of thought which mask their incessant will to power behind a semblance of objective knowledge’. But his assertion that there is an historical truth of the Spanish Civil War is a claim to objective knowledge. If there is ...”

“... But where does this resurgence of the old triadic structures derive from, despite Derrida, despite Foucault, despite the frontal attack of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipe? More than ever, the last quarter-century of French culture comes to seem the period of Lacan, in whom the three structures of Oedipus, the Trinity and the Dialectic acquired, for the ...”