The discourse of philosophy

Michel Foucault gave his answer to these questions, which are still much discussed today, in a carefully composed manuscript.

In contrast to those who either want to reveal the essence of philosophy or declare it dead, Foucault understands it as a discourse whose economy must be worked out in comparison with other discourses - scientific, literary, everyday, religious.
The discourse of philosophy
thus proposes a new way of writing the history of philosophy, one that moves away from simply commenting on the great thinkers.

Nietzsche occupies a special place, however, as he introduces a new epoch in which philosophy becomes a diagnosis of the present: From now on, it is its task to explain to a society what constitutes its age.
Nowhere has Michel Foucault made the ambitions of his intellectual programme as clear as in this work, which is now being published for the first time almost 60 years after it was written. A minor sensation!