ABSTRACT
Michel Foucault's thought defies easy categorization. His philosophy contains no practical political outlook, nor does it lend itself to the realization of a definite political project. As Foucault writes, in the Classical age "language was a form of knowing and knowing was automatically discourse. While not all of the above critiques of natural science fit neatly under a single postmodern rubric, the influence of Foucault's approach to knowledge is clear. Many postmodern thinkers have wrapped their critique in the blanket of the total, and placed the blame for the sins of the social sciences at the door of modern natural science itself. An unusually clear statement of the postmodernist attitude toward the natural sciences appeared in the Spring 1996 issue of the cultural studies journal Social Text. Physicist Steven Weinberg once acerbically noted that much of the postmodern commentary on science is motivated by the desire to enhance the status of the commentator.
