Foucault's Rejection of the Enlightenment

Foucault is a, you could call him the grandfather of woke if you like and he's the most quoted thinker in post-colonial theory. He has this very transgressive aura and being openly gay at a time when people weren't even beginning to imagine marriage equality was part of that. But he is somebody who flouts or simply rejects all three of the principles that I think are central. Many of the theoretical assumptions that support the most admirable impulses of the woke come from the intellectual movement they despise.