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Theory as Practice: Foucault's Concept of Problematization

The Enlightenment, which bequeathed to modernity a faith in social progress, has become as problematic as that faith. Kant posed the question of philosophy's status as a contemporary discourse, and generated the paradox of attempting to understand what has made understanding possible. By making this paradox the basis of a critique of the Enlightenment, Foucault posed the question of the subject and its present location. To this end, he proposed a kind of analysis: "genealogy." Central to this analysis is the concept of "problematization," which is concerned with how and why, at specific times and under particular circumstances, certain phenomena...