Minutes It is customary to refer to Nietzsche, both to claim and disqualify Nietzsche, as the great precursor to postmodern relativist thinking. Michel Foucault, in this regard, did not fail to rely on a certain relationship with the thoughts of the famous German philosopher, stressing the continuity of questioning and method between his work and his own. It is precisely this image of a postmodern Nietzsche that Jacques Bouveresse focuses on questioning in Nietzsche against Foucault. It is from the truth question that Jacques Bouveresse is interested in Foucault. Michel Foucault is credited by those who claim to have completely overhauled the concepts of truth and objectivity to such an extent that it would no longer be possible to use those concepts, as rationalists do, without being accused of naivety. The issue for me is how far we can and how far Foucault has actually managed to think differently about things such as truth, objectivity, knowledge and science 1. This claim to get rid of the concept of truth, at least as commonly understood, and parentage with