Said’s humanism cannot be reconciled with the anti-humanist Foucault he invokes.

Evidence

These ambivalences about Auerbach and about humanism in general were problematic enough, but they were then complicated further by the impossible reconciliation which Said tries to achieve between that humanism and Foucault’s Discourse Theory, which no serious intellectual would want to use simply as a method of reading and classifying canonical books because the theory itself is inseparable from Nietzschean anti-humanism and anti-realist theories of representation. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 650

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s tracing of Foucault’s race-struggle counterhistory: Ahmad shows that appealing to Foucault as method forecloses the humanist ground Said needs. — connects to: Said’s Orientalism deploys incompatible Foucauldian and humanist origin-stories simultaneously. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 293; Said holds incompatible Foucauldian and humanist periodizations of Orientalism at once. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 663

Broader Connections

• Said holds incompatible Foucauldian and humanist periodizations of Orientalism at once. #expands (0.90) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 663
• Said’s Orientalism deploys incompatible Foucauldian and humanist origin-stories simultaneously. #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 293