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>Isn’t this a virtue rather than a vice? Psychiatry is obviously more vulnerable to postmodernist attack and also more directly involved in the subjugation of human beings

He and Deluzue and others made grand bold pronouncements like knowledge is socially constructed, then talked about these low hanging fruits like the treatment of the mentally ill in the freaking medieval and early modern period, the evolution of prisons, the history of sexuality, etc. So there's the miss-match. They talk a big game, and naive people take them at their word as having 'proved' this big game, but their examples are rather small scale.

Can knowledge be socially generated? Yeah! Of course. Everyone already knew that. But bold pronouncements over it being always true is complete hogwash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-knowledge

That being said, actually a simple glance at the reception to his work in his lifetime, shows that actual historians were poking holes in his work showing sloppy scholarship. But a great deal of work was then built upon Foucault's works as if they were genius infallible works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish