Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Rank anti-intellectualism (fleh)/reply (10)

Foucault did attract something of a cult of personality during his life that made "Foucaldian analysis" into a Theory of Everything a la Marxism, logical positivism, etc. I find those guys annoying as well. Start out with something less grandiose in scope -- read Madness and Civilization. It has a lot to do with reality, specifically the conceptualization of madness in early modern Europe, the use of the forerunners of psychiatric disciplines for oppressive purposes, and the "Great Confinement" in which prisons and asylums sprung up all over Europe.