Full Idea
Unlike Marxists, Foucault's project is to offer an internal account of human thinking, without assuming a privileged status for the conscious content of that thought.
Gist of Idea
Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas
Source
report of Michel Foucault (works [1978]) by Gary Gutting - Foucault: a very short introduction 4
Book Reference
Gutting,Gary: 'Foucault' [OUP 2005], p.35
A Reaction
His project is historical. Personally I resent anyone who claims to understand my thought better than I do. I suppose my intellectual duty is to read Foucault, and see (honestly) whether his project applies to me.
Related Idea
Idea 5277 Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life [Marx/Engels]