Abstract:The dispute between modernity and postmodernity calls into question the emancipatory potential of reason and, to escape extremist positions on this, we argue that Foucault’s reading of the Kantian question of Aufklärung offers not only principles to critically mark out the advances and limits of modernity but also arguments to think about the human formation inherent to Aufklärung. For Foucault, the Greco-Roman heritage of the Kantian Aufklärung shows that his own historical ontology is a tributary of the phil… Show more
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