“ When in 1784 Kant asked, Was heisst Aufklarung?, he meant, What’s going on right now? What’s happening to us? What is this world, this period, this precise moment in which we are living? Or in other words: What are we? as Aujkldrer, as part of the Enlightenment? Compare this with the Cartesian question: Who am I? I, as a unique but universal and unhistorical subject? I, for Descartes, is everyone, anywhere at any moment? But Kant asks something else: What are we? in a very precise moment of history. Kant’s question appears as an analysis of both us and our present. ”
The Subject and Power, Michel Foucault. (via nonchalantlybogus)
