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Previous chapter The Vertical Time of Modernity The elaboration of a genealogy of ethics in the last years of Foucault's life led him to a philosophy of present and modernity. One of the objectives aimed by the use of genealogy, during the 1970s, was to make a “history of present.” Foucault understood these terms in a very different way than did the historians, who, following Pierre Nora, began to use them concurrently. According to him, it was not a matter of making the history of the most - Philosophie – Nouvel article