Foucault rejected Kant’s ‘What are we now’ question as no longer relevant

Evidence

Foucault found Kant’s “What Is Enlightenment?” striking because Kant essentially asked the question “What’s going on just now? What is happening to us? What is this world, this period, this precise moment in which we are living?” More effectively put, Kant asked the fundamental question: “What are we, now?” Foucault undoubtedly appreciates the innovative nature of Kant’s question, for what it meant for the end of the eighteenth century, but he seems to think that this is no longer a relevant question. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 344

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Foucault’s rejection of the ‘what are we now’ question connect to his broader refusal of the transcendental subject?