CriticalMethodology of FoucaultsCulturalTheoryCriticalMethodology of FoucaultsCulturalTheory

To applyeach theory, paying attention toits social and epistemological backgrounds as well asits ontological, anthropological, epistemological, and method ological fundamentals seemnecessary. SinceFoucault's cultural theory has been recently taken into considerationin Iran, inthispaper we are going to investigate the fundamentals and backgrounds of this theory using descriptive-analytical method and raise some of the criticisms againstitto be consideredin applying it later. It seems that Foucault’s cultural theory has some fund amentals without which we cannot analyze Iran’s social issues.