ABSTRACT
The point … is to transform critique conducted in the form of necessary limitation into a practical critique that takes the form of a possible transgression … Criticism is no longer going to be practiced in the pursuit of formal structures with universal value, but rather a historical investigation into the events that have led us to constitute ourselves and recognise ourselves as subjects of what we do, think and say. [Such a critique] will be genealogical in the sense that it will not deduce, from the form of what we are, what it is possible for us to do and to know; but it will separate out, from the contingency that has made us what we are, the possibility of no longer being, doing or thinking what we are, or do or think. It is not seeking to make possible a metaphysics that has finally become a science; it is seeking to give new impetus, as far and as wide as possible, to the undefined work of freedom.
