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A kind word for Foucault
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A kind word for Foucault

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Carl Beijer
Jun 07, 2015
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Foucault has, particularly in recent years, joined his forerunner Nietzsche in the pantheon of philosophers that leftists love to hate. The standard left critique of Foucault is ably articulated in this Jacobin article by Daniel Zamora: “Foucault was highly attracted to economic liberalism: he saw in it the possibility of a form of governmentality that …

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