Deux articles sur Michel Foucault sur la question de l'origine et la pensée critique
Les deux articles sont écrits par Vittorio Perego:
Il problema dell’origine in Foucault:
In the 1960s Foucault designed a work entitled The Thought of Origin. This article aims to show how the book was written in various publications. In fact, the theme of origin is present in Foucault since the first research and continues throughout the 1960s, always faced by relating Husserl and Nietzsche. This path, characterized by ruptures and second thoughts, presents a progressive distancing from the phenomenological matrix present in the Introduction to Traum und Existenz and in the History of Madness, in which Foucault is under the influence of Merleau-Ponty. Coming to share Derrida’s thesis of the impossibility of right to access the origin, but going beyond the textualism of deconstruction, Foucault shows how every discourse on the origin, not only is an anthropological dispositif, but also a typical configuration of the politics of truth, whose power games must be unmasked.
Struttura e genesi del pensiero critico in Michel Foucault:
One of the most recurring themes of the last phase of Michel Foucault’s Denkweg is the resumption of Kantian criticism. The aim of this essay is to reconstruct the genesis of this link between archeology analysis and critical thinking. Although Husserl’s phenomenology was thought of as the overcoming of the Kantism, Foucault endorsed some of the interpretations present in the French philosophical debate to recover the critical instance. In the Introduction to Anthropology from the pragmatic point of view of 1961 Foucault highlights the birth of homo criticus. The Kantian criticism is not accomplished in the identification of a Wesen of the human, but is configured as an attitude of resistance in the face of all knowledge that reduces man to a datum of fact. It is from this perspective that Foucault’s genealogical thinking revaluates the Aufklärung, understood as the ontology of actuality and the diagnosis of the present.
