Michel Foucault

Lynne Cheney, for instance, the wife of Bush's vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney, had written a whole book on the subject called Telling the Truth, in which she accused postmodern thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida of aiming at "discrediting the objectivity and rationality at the heart of the scientific enterprise."

Win McCormack: John McCain, Postmodern Candidate 2008

If we are courageous enough we can critique modern culture and its foibles in the way that post-modernists such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Jürgen Habermas, Herbert Marcuse, Paul Feyerabend and many others have done.

clusterflock: Lynn Bauman Archives 2007

The French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault recalled that the ancient Greeks sought: "to make their lives an oeuvre that carries certain aesthetic values" He had no fears that a self-aware individual would withdraw from outward social responsibilities, but would "be able to conduct himself properly in relation to others and for others."

Brian D. Cohen: Does Art Make You a Better Person? Brian D. Cohen 2011

The 20th-century French philosopher Michel Foucault developed the theme and argued that speech was only free when the weak used it against the strong.

Let the law save whistleblowers, not silence them | Nick Cohen 2011

But Miller, a professor of politics at the New School and author of a biography of Michel Foucault, among other books, does not rest with digging out petty failings or moments of hypocrisy.

Philosophy And A J.D. Salinger Biography The Huffington Post 2011

Imagine a parallel universe in which Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault wrote adventure films and slapstick comedies in their spare time.

Marx at the movies 2011

The French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault recalled that the ancient Greeks sought: "to make their lives an oeuvre that carries certain aesthetic values" He had no fears that a self-aware individual would withdraw from outward social responsibilities, but would "be able to conduct himself properly in relation to others and for others."

Brian D. Cohen: Does Art Make You a Better Person? Brian D. Cohen 2011

But Miller, a professor of politics at the New School and author of a biography of Michel Foucault, among other books, does not rest with digging out petty failings or moments of hypocrisy.

Philosophy And A J.D. Salinger Biography The Huffington Post 2011

Faced with the rise of insecurity and hatred, faced with the necessity, as Michel Foucault put it, to defend society against those whose entire program consists of nihilism, faced with the burning obligation, whatever the current naïve optimism, to combat public hoodlums and their unlimited violence, there are really two solutions.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: Nicolas Sarkozy's Three Errors 2010

At university in the 1960s, he was seduced by the new wave of French post-structuralist theorists – Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva and, above all, Jacques Lacan.

Slavoj Žižek: interview 2010