Um artigo intitulado "In the Asylum", escrito por alguém chamado
In Foucault?s Nietzschean vision, all human institutions?even, or especially, those of avowedly beneficent intent?are expressions of the will to power, because such a will underlies all human activity. It is not really surprising, then, if asylums had turned into nothing but chambers of horrors: for psychiatry, and indeed the whole of medicine, to the rest of which Foucault soon turned his undermining attention, were not enterprises to liberate mankind from some of its travails?enterprises that inevitably committed errors en route to knowledge and enlightenment?but expressions of the will to power of the medical profession. The fact that this will was cloaked under an official ideology of benevolence made it only the more dangerous and sinister. This will needed to be unmasked, so that mankind could liberate itself and live in the anarchic Dionysian mode that Foucault favored. (A sadomasochistic homosexual, the French philosopher later lived out his fantasies in San Francisco, and died of AIDS as a result.)
Mas esse tipo de opinião - pasmem - é corriqueira. E não se resume aos meios acadêmicos norte-americanos, que, se por um lado possuem bons e tradicionais filósofos, por outro, às vezes criam enormes barbaridades 'civilizadas'. Não é difícil encontrar monstruosidades da crítica a Foucault nos textos de língua portuguesa... Para ver apenas um caso (em minha opinião, um dos mais grosseiros, já que Foucault é utilizado para legitimar práticas de management), basta clicar aqui.
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