Foucault’s suspension of determination enabled concrete analysis of discursive formations.
Evidence
Foucault’s work—currently enjoying another of those uncritical periods of discipleship through which British intellectuals reproduce today their dependency on yesterday’s French ideas—has had an exceedingly positive effect: above all because, in suspending the nearly insoluble problems of determination, Foucault has made possible a welcome return to the concrete analysis of particular ideological and discursive formations, and the sites of their elaboration. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 207
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- CANDY: The wry jab that British intellectuals import ‘yesterday’s French ideas’ with uncritical discipleship is a quotable, self-aware observation.