His influence on other deep thinkers

Michel Foucault was the most influential social theorist of his time. He caused controversy through many of his publications, yet provided people with an all-embracing reflection of historical values in a modern era. It is obvious that many theorists have been greatly influenced by Foucault’s works, having inspired not only social theorists, but intellects of history, media, modernity, culture, and philosophy. Theorists have often written books on the famous Foucault, in order to adapt and analyse his concepts.

Foucault’s later publications on sexuality largely influenced the feminist movement, having determined the book Feminism and the Final Foucault: Edited by Dianna Taylor and Karen Vintges. This book offers a feminist focus on many of Foucault’s concepts on sexuality, particularly focussing on his ideas of the self.

"The History of Sexuality" was one of Foucault's most famous and inspiring books. Foucault played a key role in influencing the founded "queer theory", by bringing homosexuality to the public's attention. Queer theory has been adopted by a vast number of theorists, for example Tamsin Spargo’s publication “Foucault and Queer Theory” (1999), which pretty much does what’s in the title, and delivers a Foucaultian view on sexuality. A more feminist approach was "Sex Acts: Practices of Femininity and Masculinity" written by Jennifer Harding (1998). In this book Harding offers a Foucault & Butler approach to the conception of sexuality and gender in modern discourses, and especially discusses the representation of sexuality in popular culture.