A Critical Ontology of the Present:  “You have no right to despise the present”

Note to the online reader

Introduction

I. The Anthropological Horizon in Foucault’s Thought

a) Influences on the early Foucault

Thinking Language: Formalism

Writing Histories: the Annales School         

Humanism and Anthropology

b) Kant and Foucault.

Part II. Foucault’s Critique of the Anthropological Slumber

Part III. What is it to Reason? From Sapere Aude to Mutare Aude

II. From Self-affection to Technologies of the Self

a) Practices of Freedom VS. Processes of  Liberation               

b) The Political Economy of the Production of Subjectivity

III. Technologies of the Common

Reflections on Postfordism

Concluding Remarks

Appendix:

Thèse complémentaire pour le doctorat ès lettres

Introduction à l'Anthropologie de Kant (Michel Foucault, 1961)

English translation of Michel Foucault’s Thèse complémentaire

Bibliography