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Confession may no longer be made to a priest, but it is surely made to one's doctor, psychiatrist, best friend, or at least, to oneself.
Modern power
Society itself appears as a multitude of dominated others, not only criminals, but also students, patients, factory workers, soldiers, shoppers. Each of us is, and in a variety of ways, the subject of modern power. Correspondingly, there is no single centre of power, no privileged us against which a marginalised them is defined. Power is dispersed throughout society in a multitude of microcentres. This dispersion corresponds to the fact that there is no teleology, no dominating class or world historical process behind the development. Modern power is the chance outcome in the manner of genealogy of numerous small uncoordinated causes.
On Foucault's reading, Baudelaire's modernity is an attitude that finds something eternally valuable in the present moment, while at the same time striving to transform it not by destroying it, but by grasping it in what it is.
The Masked Philosopher
Is Foucault a philosopher in the sense of Socrates drinking the hemlock, of Diogenes searching with his lamp, of Descartes meditating in his room? In our time, the paradigm is Kant, who established philosophy as an autonomous theoretical enterprise, not, as for the ancients, a life-guiding wisdom, nor, as for the medievals, a handmaid to theology, nor even, as for Descartes and other early moderns, as part of a new scientific account of the world. In Kant, at least as the author of his three great critiques, philosophy presents itself as an academic discipline alongside other disciplines such as physics and mathematics, with its own theoretical goals, methods, and domain of inquiry.