[jorgesborges]

That's an excellent observation. Those philosophers are deliberately ambiguous for the sake of profundity. It's not unlike interpreting poetry or literature -- they even built that into their tradition, like a preemptive defence against their lack of clarity. The most honest way to approach Foucault and others like him is to read them as thinkers and artists and to accept what insights you can glean from it and disregard the rest and shake off its overbearing seriousness.

[raincom]

Deliberately ambiguous sentences mean 1000 meanings to 1000 followers. Then these 1000 postmodern intellectuals write treatises on the meaning of this, by adding their own ambiguity. In the end, everything goes.