My last post for the term: Have you all noticed how Foucault manages to bring all discussions back to his methodologies in the essays we've read this term? He has a wonderful, nuanced discussion of Kant (I particularly enjoyed the idea that modernity is an ethos, not a time-period), but then he appropriates the question of what enlightenment is and answers it with something like "(the search for) enlightenment is the pursuit of situated connections and small-t truths using a genealogical/archeological method." In a sense, he places his project(s) within what he calls the modern ethos, within the critical reflection on self and context.
-Chris
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