Foucault and the historical transcendental: On first looking into Foucault's La constitution d'un transcendental historique dans la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Foucault states that escaping from Hegel “requires knowing to what extent Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it requires knowing what remains Hegelian in that which allows us to think against Hegel, and measuring to what extent our maneuvers against him are perhaps a ruse he has set for us, at the end of which he awaits us, motionless and elsewhere”. With the recent publication of Foucault's Diplôme d'Études Supérieures thesis, La constitution d'un transcendental historique dans la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel , we can now gauge just how much the “historical a priori” of Foucault's The Order of Things (1966) owes to the younger Foucault's conception of “the historical transcendental”, and to what extent, if any, the mature Foucault was able to escape Hegel's clutches.
DOI: 10.1111/sjp.70046
Author: Bruce Baugh
Institution: Thompson Rivers University
Language: English
Topic: Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,900
OpenAlex ID: W7155019909
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