Only beginning to read Foucault systematically, but this jumped out at me:
“Nothing in man—not even his body—is sufficiently stable to serve as the basis for self-recognition or for understanding other men.”
“Nothing in man—not even his body—is sufficiently stable to serve as the basis for self-recognition or for understanding other men.”
Question: For those who have spent time on Foucault, how does a statement like that complicate the common assumption that racial and feminist discourses emphasizing "the body" are derived from his thinking?
Was led to YouTube to watch the Foucault/Chomsky debate and first thing that jumps out at me beyond even the moderator's 70s style is that, instead of the customary mineral water you get on panels today, they have a straight-up pitcher of *orange juice* to sip on between them: 
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