Michel Foucault

Foucault's concept of the author challenges traditional notions of authorship, suggesting that the author is a function of discourse rather than a creator of original ideas. The "author-function"...

Foucault's notion of agency exists in relationship to power. Agency is the ability to resist totalizing systems of power or knowledge that would seek to restrict freedom or define subjectivity.

Although New Historicism was in large part the work of literary critic Stephan Greenblatt, it was influenced by many others including Marxist and structuralist philosophers.  Michel Foucault's...

The topic of the application of Foucault's concepts to female beauty has been the subject of a goodly number of missives and tomes by written by feminists. One of the problems feminists see with...

I can talk about Judith Butler and Foucault. Essentialism, which both reject, says that the gender we are born with carries with it genetic components that make girls innately—genetically—"girly"...

The main arguments in “What is an Author?” involve the construct of the author figure and how this construct is reductive. In “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,” the main arguments indicate that history...

If by "classical philosophers" you mean philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato, then their critique of Foucault's positions, especially his later (post-Left) work on who initiates discourse; in...