Michel Foucault and the birth of modernity

Abstract

The article investigates the reading of Michel Foucault with repect to the origin of modern thinking in the turning of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. Essencially, different from classic thinking, the modern thinking roots itself in history, in the conditioned, in finitude. There, new objects turn themselves possible (life, production, language), as well as a new philosophy (a critical one). And, from inside this new epistemic space, a figure wich was absent in the tradition of western thought: Man.