John Searle on Michel Foucault

“Foucault was often lumped with Derrida. That's very unfair to Foucault. He was a different caliber of thinker altogether.”

“Michel Foucault once characterized Derrida's prose style to me as "obscurantisme terroriste." The text is written so obscurely that you can't figure out exactly what the thesis is (hence "obscurantisme") and then when one criticizes it, the author says, "Vous m'avez mal compris; vous êtes idiot" ["You did not understand; you are an idiot"] (hence "terroriste").”