Abstract

It is not an accident that Foucault was an outstanding national thinker for almost twenty years. The following reflections deal with an epoch-making author whose historical timeliness must be recognized. From this viewpoint, we need not await the reactions aroused by the audior's death. Whether we set out to justify the Foucault phenomenon or to dishonor the corpse of a recendy deceased person, diere is no reason to revise our intellectual life. The real question is not to know why Aron assiduously consorted widi all die “Modernists” as long as they were “in die air”; nor why, as soon as die wind turned, he had to announce diat “at the bottom of his heart” he had always kept his distance.