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Forget Foucault, new edition

by Jean Baudrillard

Baudrillard’s challenge to Foucault

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Baudrillard’s challenge to Foucault

In this essay, Jean Baudrillard takes Michel Foucault’s work—especially *The History of Sexuality*—as the subject of a direct philosophical challenge. Baudrillard frames Foucault’s account as a powerful discourse that should itself be questioned, turning the essay into an examination of Foucault’s broader body of thought as well as that particular book. First published in 1977, *Forget Foucault* sits within debates among contemporary French philosophers, including the work of Gilles Deleuze mentioned in the description. Its focus is the contest over how to interpret Foucault, not a general introduction to his ideas.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Jean Baudrillard’s engagement with Michel Foucault.
  • Those exploring disputes and movements in modern French philosophy.
  • Readers seeking a focused philosophical essay rather than a general survey.

Themes

Critique of Michel FoucaultInterpretation of *The History of Sexuality*Modern French philosophyPhilosophical discourse

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Book overview

Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault.

In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History of Sexuality--and of his entire oeuvre--and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and F

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