Destructionis destructio (II) : existence and truth

Delivered over fourteen one-hour lessons, the lecture continued the confrontation between Heidegger's history of Being (Sein) and/or Being (Seyn) and Foucault's history of truth, examining from an archaeological point of view their respective restitutions of the genealogy of the relationship between existence and truth, starting from the alleged "victory" of Platonic-Aristotelian "philosophy" and "apophantic" over "sophistry" - both restitutions characterized by various forms of ignorance or undervaluation of medieval thought, whether philosophical or theological. Starting with his critique of Aristotle in Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, Foucault's Courage of Truth also significantly distances himself from Heidegger's theses on nihilism, forcing a critical re-reading of the theme of the "essential philosopher".