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Reading Nietzsche and Foucault: A Hermeneutics of Suspicion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

J. Scott Johnson  and
Leslie Paul Thiele
J. Scott Johnson
Affiliation:
Stanford University
Leslie Paul Thiele
Affiliation:
University of Florida
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Abstract

To what extent and in what respects does the political thought of Michel Foucault reflect the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas? In the September 1990 issue of this Review, Leslie Paul Thiele firmly asserted Nietzschean roots for Foucault's thought. In this Controversy, Thiele's claims are disputed by J. Scott Johnson. Johnson argues that Foucault's theory is rooted as much in Marx as in Nietzsche and that Foucault himself refuted Thiele's interpretation. In his response, Thiele takes issue with Johnson's critique.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 581 - 592
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1991

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