The truth is that Foucault knew very little about anything before the seventeenth century and, in the modern world, outside France. His familiarity with the literature and art of any period was negligible. His hostility to psychology made him incompetent to deal with sexuality, his own or anybody else's. The elevation of Foucault to guru status by American and British academics is a tale that belongs to the history of cults.


p. 174 - Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) - Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf

Camille Paglia Quotes

The truth is that Foucault knew very little about anything before the seventeenth century and, in the modern world, outside France. His familiarity...

The truth is that Foucault knew very little about anything before the seventeenth century and, in the modern world, outside France. His familiarity...

The truth is that Foucault knew very little about anything before the seventeenth century and, in the modern world, outside France. His familiarity...

The truth is that Foucault knew very little about anything before the seventeenth century and, in the modern world, outside France. His familiarity...