“... of language, with a material concretion all their own. In this way Heller-Roazen identifies with Foucault the archivist more than Derrida the deconstructionist. Archives are incomplete by nature, and one lacuna in Absentees, which Heller-Roazen will no doubt address in subsequent work, is psychoanalysis, despite the fact that its case studies are full of ...”

“... race’. Mitchell rounds up the usual Pomo suspects to support him in his more substantial claims: Foucault (‘When Foucault wondered what would take the place of the Age of Man, he probably didn’t suspect that it would be the Age of the Dinosaur’ – good for Foucault); Benjamin (who ...”

“... on earth was he referring to? I am gratified that a totally obscure piece I wrote about Michel Foucault, correctly identified by the editor, prompted Feyerabend to say that the proposition that ‘individuals matter less to knowledge than the discourse in which they participate’ is ‘entirely against my grain, absolutely and for ever. The individual ...”

“... pictures. With him the two activities interlock, coming closer to the idea of the calligram that Foucault played with in his essay on Magritte than to anything that we usually expect from artists’ statements, almost always touched as they are with bravado in the face of the incompatibility of words and pictures. The calligram ‘sets the most perfect trap ...”

“... their purposes. It is, for instance, pretty suicidal for embattled minorities to embrace Michel Foucault, let alone Jacques Derrida. The minority view was always that power could be undermined by truth: that it was unjustly distributed, that its holders wanted this overlooked and purchased all sorts of intellectual disguises for the purpose, that it would ...”

“... arguments for seeing historical narratives as ‘allegories of temporality’, and even to Foucault, who is accused of the failure to understand his own rhetorical strategies. By contrast, the contributors to the second volume choose to give themselves little room for manoeuvre. Hayden White is mentioned just in passing for his ‘refined rhetorical ...”

“... pink book come from? I have a suspicion that Simpson and his contributors have had a look at Foucault for Beginners, and so in this book the word ‘gay’ is akin to ‘patriarchy’ in feminist discourse, and is magnified into a similarly controlling mechanism. The idea of coming out as becoming free to be oneself has been turned on its head: to come ...”

“... After the New Criticism (1980), Criticism and Social Change (1983), Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens (1988). Modernist Quartet marks a return to the major American poets on whom he worked in the Sixties and Seventies (in the Preface, he confesses that his taste is ‘hopelessly canonical’). It carries existing ...”

“... whereby plants were the signs of minerals which were the signs of stars (François Jacob, Michel Foucault). The semantics of natural kind terms is such that, when we speak of living things, we are referring, whether we know it or not, to the fundamental kinds at which science aims (Saul Kripke and, sometimes, Hilary Putnam). We have an obligation to ...”

“... too rarely pointed out that some of the most distinguished names in the field – Barthes, Adorno, Foucault, Jameson, Geoffrey Hartman – are remarkably fine stylists, more so than the majority of non-theoretical critics. Writers do not on the whole take kindly to theorists, rather as shamans do not always look with favour on anthropologists. A lot of poets ...”

“... is more, you can brush aside the books of the people influenced by Heidegger – Derrida, de Man, Foucault – as just more of the same discredited claptrap. Heidegger himself specialised in this sort of quick dismissal. Like Nietzsche, who claimed that his sense of smell told him whether or not a book was worth thinking about, Heidegger claimed to be able to ...”

“... and hiatuses. Grafton is not at all keen on the Renaissance episteme (he prefers a later Foucault from the History of Sexuality), so those of us who have ignorantly succumbed to its appeal had better think again. But if his present hero, Girolamo Cardano, is representative of 16th-century thinking, there might be something in the idea. Like Leonardo ...”

“... were variously signed by Matzneff, Barthes, Beauvoir, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Sartre, Foucault and Althusser – though not by Duras. Most of the signatories eventually recanted and apologised, though one gets the sense that Springora, understandably, can’t forgive them. This may also be why she leaves out some of the context: in these ...”

“... their deepest, least conscious convictions (‘Men believe that their speech is their servant,’ Foucault wrote, ‘and do not realise that they are submitting themselves to its demands’); and second, that language was the instrument of those who wield power, and could therefore be brought into alignment with different, consciously chosen, values and ...”

“... of authors who successfully manage to pull off this sort of thing is evident in his ‘Oublier Foucault’, a monograph translated into English as ‘Forgetting Foucault’ (Humanities and Society, Winter 1980). Foucault’s discourse, he says, duplicates the operations of power which ...”