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Chapter 7 recapitulates the approach of Anglo-American thinkers through the intellectual praxis of the philosopher. The latter is either a legislator at dawn, as with Kant and Rawls, or an interpreter at dusk, like Hegel and Taylor. However, as they uphold a singular path to enlightenment, they hold Foucault responsible for the death of the philosopher and critique. In reply, Foucault's role as a critical historian is elucidated. Here, engagement is characterised by a Kantian ethos and a Nietzschean becoming. It enables us to reinterpret enlightenment via a critique that targets thought in its historicity—specifically, regimes of truth and knowledge, power and ethics that comprise them—out of a concern for freedom as an agonistic practice in respect of the limits that confront us.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61009-2_7

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