Le Discours philosophique

What is philosophy and what is its role today? Between July and October 1966, a few months after the publication of the Words and the Things, Michel Foucault, in a manuscript very carefully drafted but which he will not publish, brings his answer to this question so much debated.Unlike those who, at the time, strive to reveal the essence of philosophy or to pronounce its death, Foucault l'apprehende, in his materiality, as a discourse whose economy must be made clear in relation to other discourses (scientific, fictional, ordinary, religious) that circulate in a given context.The Philosophical Speech thus proposes a new way of making the history of philosophy, which decimates it from the commentary of the great philosophers. Nietzsche occupies a particular place there, however, because it inaugurates an environment in which philosophy becomes a diagnostic undertaking of the present. It is now back to the philosophy to say, from the "a"