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by vixen99 2595 days ago
No argument there. Even a critic like Roger Scruton who has read him writes "Whatever you think of Foucault (and Rorty), there is no doubt that they were intelligent writers and genuine scholars with a distinctive vision of reality. They opened the way to fakes but were not fakes themselves. Matters are quite otherwise with many of their contemporaries."

To name names, he means Lacan and Althusser among many others.