Foucault’s late turn back to Nietzsche still fails to ground resistance.

Evidence

I argue that Foucault’s return in his last work to the Nietzschean idea of the subject inventing herself does not resolve these problems, and that Baudrillard’s currently fashionable writing represents a vulgar caricature of what is interesting and novel in poststructuralism. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 45

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the common reading that Foucault’s late subject-invention work solved the agency problem his critics raised. Useful against relativist readings in postmodern thought. — connects to: Foucault’s resistance lacks grounding because he abandons ideology; Foucault’s later turn to the subject still lacked a strong theory of agency — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 362; Foucault’s concept of resistance lacks any account of where it comes from. (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Foucault’s resistance lacks grounding because he abandons ideology #expands (0.85)
• Foucault’s later turn to the subject still lacked a strong theory of agency #expands (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 362
• Foucault’s concept of resistance lacks any account of where it comes from. #corroborates (0.80)
• Foucault’s later work broke from his own earlier discourse-determinism #qualifies (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 697
• Omnipresent power undermines the grounding of resistance in Foucault’s theory #corroborates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 339