ABSTRACT
Foucault often associated Weber with the Frankfurt School, as the epitome of a theoretical exercise irreducible to the French philosophical style, which was essentially imbued with phenomenology even when it dealt with the history of sciences. Foucault's research project was a work of 'evenementialisation' of history intended to debunk the schemes that pivoted on necessitating and general structures and processes. It aimed to draw attention to distinct practices, programmes and dispositifs as differentiated effects of the multiple regimes of juridification and veridiction which shored up the government of human beings. The philosophical ethos of modernity, reactivated by Nietzsche and Weber as well as critical theory, and that Foucault embraces as the engine of his own research, is to be understood as a 'permanent critique of our historicity'. The goal of Puritan asceticism is not one's renunciation to oneself, but an aware, clear, clean conduct of life.
