Foucauldian
/fuːˈkəʊdɪən
/(also Foucaultian /fuːˈkəʊɪən/)
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of the French philosopher Michel Foucault or his ideas: the Foucauldian critique of psychiatry...
- The entire concept of the self is "shown up" as not only performative, not only unstable, not only compelling the Foucauldian "moral code", but as an illusion altogether.
- Providing an insightful Foucauldian analysis of public opinion, she cuts to the "essence" of the word and its power in everyday life.
- He introduces the reader to a number of theories, including Foucauldian and Marxist theories of dominance, power, and political economy.
noun
A follower or student of the French philosopher Michel Foucault or his ideas: in graduate school I spent my days jostling with Foucauldians...
- Foucaultians are skeptical of the Enlightenment notions of agency and critical reflection to which Marxists and other social critics have traditionally appealed in efforts to overcome oppression.
- Arguments by analytic philosophers of language and Continental Foucaultians show us that we should not take up the categories of sex and gender uncritically.
- I felt left out by what Foucaultians and other intellectuals like to call "gender norms".