I’ve never got why Foucault is considered so controversial. His schtick is “institutions you might have thought benign came about for disreputable reasons”, examples being prisons, psychiatric hospitals, liberal sexual norms.
I’m surprised this is viewed as either groundbreaking (by fans) or absurd (by opponents), rather than standard scholarly stuff. His method of argument also seems like standard history, albeit with lots of irritating Long Theory Words that french people apparently are super into.
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Also while I’m here, hot take I use to troll but also actually believe: Foucault is a libertarian.
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