Hey:
Don't you think that this essay is a joke on Habermas? The
idea is that since Habermas is rather Kantian, and Kant was
one of the great Enlightenment thinkers, Habermas is
faithful to the spirit of the Enlightenment. Foucault's
reply is that Kant's enlightenment really means "Dare to
know;" that is, Kant was an innovator, not a follower,
wheras Habermas is a follower of a tradition. The joke is
that that because he's an innovator, Foucault himself is
more like Kant than the Kantian rationalist.
But it's the discussion of Baudelaire that's the most
powerful reply to Habermas in this essay...
Peter
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