From Nietzsche to Foucault, a dangerous maybe

Abstract

This paper intends no establish a connection between the thought of F. Nietzsche and M. Foucault: starting from the conception of genealogy that both authors have and the considerations of philosophy as a diagnosis of our time: either the problem of of truth and power, or the problem of nihilism. However, an abstraction of important elements that distinguish them apart is not made, such as the system and style used by each one. In this way it is pointed out that Foucault gives more importance to the historical element than Nietzsche does. Finally, both author are considered, as Nietzsche says, as philosophers of the dangeours maybe. This means that the thought of neither of these philosophers could be classified under maxim of universality of traditional metaphysics, which would grant an untouched stability before the contingency of mere actuality to those classified under it. But as opposed to this maxim, the thought of these philosophers can not be classified as such. Instead, they should be considered as philosophers which are exposed to the contigency of the present time and the interpretations that are product of this time, meaning that these interpretations are only a maybe, but that in the furutre time they can even not be.