What are your opinions on Michel Foucault?

Question

What are your opinions on Michel Foucault?

Answer 1

Who the fock is Michel Foucault - never heard of him, but I love his surname.

Answer 2

I want to read madness and civilization.

from what I know of him he was very hedonistic

well that is all.

Answer 3

A relativist and a nihilist. A man who says the world is and should be certain way and does not have the " duke " of an idea how to get there. The instigator of post-modernism and much that is incoherent in academia today. He, though writing a book on crime and punishment, knows nothing of either. His convoluted approach to punishment ignores the simple fact, that in jurisprudence, punishment is merely the law keeping it's promise. His views on s*x have fired a whole generation of feminists to go down the wrong path, away from empirically supported epistemology.

I saw a debate between Foucault and Chomsky once. What a long winded. pontificating fool Foucault came off as against Chomsky.