Foucault and Social Science

twenty years after foucault？s death, special emphasis is made on his contributions to the field of social sciences. firstly, the practice of the sort of criticism that implies reflecting about knowledge from some place where action is possible, in post-modern times. foucault？s elucidation of the human sciences, whose theoretical genealogy he traces back to kant？s was ist der mensch? sheds light on a question whose historical answer has been provided from an anthropological standpoint that led the way to the so-called human sciences. he also shows the social demands that are, concurrently, their condition of possibility. and, last but not least, this paper speaks of his standing and lucidity to point to ways without turning them into recipes, inviting us to find the courage of thinking by ourselves.