Foucault’s Genealogy of Sexuality: Foucault, Sex and Power

Foucault’s Critique of Enlightenment Thinking Foucault’s work can be understood in the context of philosophical traditions of continental thought. This included the twentieth century critique of the Enlightenment paradigm of scientific knowledge and the lack of agency inherent in this epistemological framework. As Falzon et al. (2013: 209) comment: “This means reading Foucault in relation to the tradition of Hegel, Nietzche, Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, Habermas, Lyotard and others, as well as the French philosophy of science.”