ABSTRACT
In contrast to the three thinkers discussed in the previous chapters, Foucault’s work did not start under the aegis of Weber and did not develop in a continuous dialogue with his works. For various reasons, Weber’s work was not very well known in France until the 1980’s. It was all but ignored both by the Durkheimian school in sociology and by the Annales school in history. Furthermore, after the Second World War his works were championed by Raymond Aron, and that gave a very specific intellectual and even political-ideological connotation to his ideas. Yet, the procedure followed previously can be applied even in mapping Foucault’s work, and this would not only conform to its spirit but even to his words, as he acknowledged it (Foucault 1983:14).
