The reason why...

"The reason why I’m not a philosopher in the classical sense of the word – maybe I’m not a philosopher at all, and in any case I’m not a good philosopher – is, that I’m not interested in the eternal, I’m not interested in what does not change, I’m not interested in what stays the same beneath the iridescent surface of appearances, I’m interested in the event. The event has hardly been a philosophical category, except maybe for the Stoics, for whom it raised a logical problem. Again it was Nietzsche, I think, who first defined philosophy as an activity that leads to an understanding of what’s happening, of what’s happening right now. In other words, we are pervaded by processes, movements and forces, which we don’t know, and it is doubtlessly the philosopher’s task to be a diagnostician of these forces, to diagnose contemporary reality."

A conversation between Michel Foucault and Moriaki Watanabe