Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology Quotes

“You see, given the period in which I wrote those books, it was good form (in order to be viewed favourably by the institutional Left) to cite Marx in the footnotes. So I was careful to steer clear of that. But I could dredge up — which is of no interest — quite a few passages I wrote referring to Marx. Marx would not have been that author, functioning that way in French culture, with such a political surcharge. That is the Marx I would have cited at the bottom of the page. I didn’t do it: to have some fun, and to set a trap for those among the Marxists who have tacked me to those sentences. That was part of the game.

(p.g., 395 of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, in Aesthetic, Method, and Epistemology, Penguin Books, 2020)”
― Michel Foucault, Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology