Introduction: A Philosophical Trajectory

Abstract

Foucault’s philosophical journalism. “I consider myself a journalist,” Foucault asserted in 1973, “to the extent that what interests me, that is the actuality — what is happening around us, what we are, what is going on in the world. Philosophy, up until Nietzsche, has had eternity for its reason of being. The first journalist-philosopher was Nietzsche. He introduced the today [l’aujourd’hui] into the field of philosophy. Before, philosophy only knew time and eternity. But Nietzsche had an obsession with actuality. I believe the future is something we do. The future is the way in which we react to what is happening; the way in which we transform a present movement or concern into effect. If we want to master our future, we have to ask most fundamentally the question about today. That is why philosophy, to my mind, is a kind of radical journalism.”¹