ABSTRACT
A declaration of allegiance to the French Enlightenment marks a decisive turning point in Nietzsche's development. The author offers a tentative interpretation of what he takes to be some important aspects of the 'Enlightenment moment' in Nietzsche's career. Michel Foucault's is a famous and in many ways representative postmodern evocation of Nietzsche, which is exceptional in offering arguments of a roughly traditional kind about where and when properly 'genealogical' techniques appear in Nietzsche's writings. Foucault's 'Nietzsche, Genealogy, History' is better known as a classic postmodern appropriation of Nietzsche and as an illustration of Foucault's own Nietzscheanism than as a study of Nietzsche's development from Human, All Too Human to On the Genealogy of Morals. In conclusion the author would like to bring the discussion back to the Enlightenment, drawing out some general considerations about what specialists in that period and specialists in Nietzsche might have to say to each other.
