Michel Foucault... în mișcare. Numele Foucault este ușor de pronunțat în japoneză
Michel Foucault...on the move. The name Foucault is easy to pronounce in Japanese

Summary/Abstract: The present study approaches Michel Foucault on the move, hypostatizing him in Japan, a space that places him in a privileged philosophical and critical position – “... my name, Foucault, is easy to pronounce in Japanese, much easier for example than Heidegger” – valuating an updated/actual relevant axis, marked by travel/visit/lecture – postcolonial criticism – transnationality. The phrase in-motion, [here] in-Japan clarifies the reason why M. Foucault opted for the East – West division and not for another one, resorting extremely rarely to the term “Asia”. Instead, he will refer to a vocabulary tributary to the West – East relationship, part of an intellectual commitment of the moment, of an intellectual involvement and critical interest in the West and the East. By preserving the dual pair of terms – Occident – Orient –, Foucault will identify both the speculative universality of modern Western ways of thinking, but also the critical specificity of extra-European thinking, rethinking the very operational formula of Western philosophy, freeing the role of “non-Western” forms of thought. In-Japan certifies and completes the Foucauldian field of interpretation explicitly named in the dialogue of two Prefaces – Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge Classique (1961) and Les mots et les choses (1966).

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