Foucault in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung : Mediengeschichte einer intellektuellen Kanonisierung

Using the example of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), this essay reconstructs the history of Foucault's public presentation to a West German readership from 1967 to the present. In doing so, it identifies various phases of reception which increasingly follow their own logic of Foucaults iconization. With regard to criticism of Foucault, academic controversies are taken up sporadically, but are hardly radicalized into a political problematization of Foucault. This only changes in the 1990s with the re-importation of US debates, which breaks with the pragmatic and interested basic attitude of Foucault's reception in the FAZ.