"In reality, the question I wanted to talk to you about and still want to talk about is: What is Critique? We should try to think about some propositions around this plan that continues to shape, extend, and regenerate in the outskirts of philosophy, closely related to it, completely against it, at the expense of it, in the direction of an emerging philosophy, in the position, possibly, of every possible philosophy. And it seems to me that between the high Kantian project and the small warlike-professional activities that bear this name of critique, it seems to me that within the modern West (let's date it, in rough lines, empirically, from the 15th-16th century) there is a certain way of thinking, speaking, also acting, a certain relationship with what exists, with what we know, with what we do, a relationship with society, with culture, a relationship, also, with others, which we could call, let's say, a critical attitude".

Michel Foucault