The Critique of the Philosophical Anthropology in Foucault's Work.

Anthropology concerns man as a natural being, his animalistic determinations; it constitutes the knowledge of man’s knowledge of himself, and so involves man interrogating himself, investigating his own limits. The upshot of this inflection of anthropology is that the shadow of a classical philosophy henceforth deprived of God is cast over the philosophy of our time. Anthropology only speaks the language of the limit and of negativity. Because of this, it cannot be made it into a positive field that would serve as the basis for the human sciences. Having forgotten this teaching, contemporary philosophy essentialized finitude, gave it the form of a human essence; henceforth, finitude became the truth of truth. Speculative anthropology wants to link man’s experience to philosophy in a movement in which man presents his truth as the soul of truth. And it is this movement that Nietzsche brings to a conclusion when he shows that the death of God implies the death of man. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]