The three texts here reviewed have in common both, in their substantive focus, a critical orientation to traditional frameworks of cultural interpretation and action and, in their approach to that task, traces of what may be seen as 'postmodern' engagement. The latter label, though, would have been (and was) denied by Foucault of his work, although it is freely attributed by many contemporary admirers. The postmodern label is self-­ascribed by the authors of the other two works here reviewed, although the appropriateness of that description is open to contestation.