James Schmidt on Foucault, Cassirer, and the Enlightenement

With Habermas as foil, constant reference to Kant, and a guest appearance by Nietzsche. Here. Pull quote: 

In short, the author of Les mots et les choses appears to have felt that the author of Die Philosophie der Aufklärung was very much a kindred spirit:  both were attempting to understand how cultures were shaped by an a priori that was historical, rather than transcendental.

James Schmidt's blog, Persistent Enlightenment, is a wonderful resource, with a recent series on issues in translating Kant's "Was heißt Aufkärung?" that is extraordinarily rich.