Foucault’s insistence on a historical account of event
He’s up to get rid of humanism
The universal is a [?] specific of a privileged site of enunciation
Uses humanistic words to undermine humanistic words
Humanism = reconciliation
but Foucault wants tension
reduces humanism’s precepts ad absurdum: e.g. subjectivity
towards unconscious
Foucault has a modernist take on things – directs it against most prestigious concepts
There is modernist attitude: going to the extremes