Ultimul Foucault

Abstract

The present article proposes to highlight the valences of the last Foucault, engaging him with a punctual and punctuated approach found in/through an accumulation of immediate arguments – from the last interview, to the last Foucault, as equivalent to the last man (Fukuyama) or to the reading (by overlapping) of the last Foucault and the last words of Socrates (from Foucault's lecture, February 15, 1984). The last [Foucault] is endowed – here – by/with a plus meaning: last approaches the act of being the last, but it also retains what remained decisive and definitive, launching, as a creative-decisive formula, the act and the temptation of thinking, by clearly redefining the object of thought. The last Foucault does not have a synonymous meaning, nor can it integrate in the series of possible finite-final extensions (with notes of differentiation in relation to the final Foucault or to the appellative of late Foucault). Last remains – here – an open research phase/stage, started in the early 1980s, as new experiments/experiences felt both at the external level of sociability, but also through the attempt of self-transformation, both part of a genealogical project applied to themes, practices and modes of governance of the self and the others.