American humanists, untutored in sociology, are knocked out by Foucault’s daring: analyze crime and punishment, prisons and penal codes! Gee, I wish I’d thought of that! Well, Foucault didn’t think of it either. It’s in Durkheim’s The Division of Labour in Society. (SAAC 1992)
No, it's not limp. American intellectuals just haven't read these guys. That's a fact. Try listening sometime to Jordan Peterson fumbling his way through a synopsis of Deconstruction. Neither he nor Paglia know a THING about it.