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Marx, Foucault, Genealogy.(influence of Karl Marx on philosophy of Michel Foucault)(Critical Essay)

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From: Polity
Date: 20020322
Author:Macdonald, Bradley J.

For many of us as young intellectuals, an interest in Nietzsche of Bataille didn't represent a way of distancing oneself from Marxism or communism. Rather, it was almost the only path leading to what we, of course, thought could be expected of communism.

--Michel Foucault (1)

To hear Foucault tell it, to attach oneself both to Marxism and Nietzsche's thought was not such a stretch for certain intellectuals within the early fifties in France. Of course, Foucault was aware of how strange such a theoretical amalgamation may sound for his contemporaries in the late seventies ...

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