Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism And Herme... Here

Dreyfus and Rabinow realized Foucault didn't fit either. He was too detached to be a traditional seeker of meaning, yet too focused on historical change to be a pure structuralist. The Breakthrough: Interpretive Analytics

In the late 1970s, two scholars— Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow —met at a seminar that would change how the world understood one of France's most complex thinkers. They were debating Michel Foucault, a man whose work was so original it resisted being filed under any single label. Out of their disagreement grew the book , a work Foucault himself praised as "very clear and intelligent". The Intellectual Dilemma Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Herme...

The authors argued that Foucault had created a third way, which they called . This new method allowed him to: Dreyfus and Rabinow realized Foucault didn't fit either