“…3 The fact that this school of thought ignored questions of subjective existence and consciousness caused great irritation within humanistic circles; phenomenologists and existentialists were particularly critical of the vague and abstract nature of cultural relativism. 4 Nevertheless, other scholars have recognized the resemblance between Foucault's 1954 works (Foucault, 1954(Foucault, , 2001c and his later historical analysis (see, e.g., Basso, 2012;Basso, in Le Blanc, 2013;Macherey, 1994;Monod, 1997Monod, , 2013Sabot, 2006;Smyth, 2011). These scholars believe that Foucault's 1954 works, as well as his works of 1960, are influenced by Husserl's phenomenology, which distinguishes between a philosophy of subjectivity, experience, and meaning, on the one hand, and a philosophy of knowledge, concepts, and rationality, on the other.…”