Bullshit Foucault

Foucault tries to talk about the worldview of the sixteenth century and then cites as his support Paracelsus and Peter Ramus, two men very closely associated with the Reformation and the subsequent abandonment of the scholastic tradition in mainstream thought. Ramus led to the withering of rhetoric and Paracelsus to the dumbing down of semeotics. They were men primarily of the modern era, not the world that preceded it. I call bullshit.