For the first time, the Michel Foucault's essay "What is Enlightenment?" is translated into Ukrainian. The particularities of Michel Foucault's understanding of Enlightenment in the context of Immanuel Kant's "Answering the question: What is Enlightenment?" are shown. The critics of reason helps to understand the limits of a human being's cognition and rationality.
1. I. Kant. Vidpovid' na pytannia: shcho take prosvitnytstvo? // Per. z nim. Mahdalyna Laslo-Kutsiuk. - Vsesvit - №4 - 1989. - S. 135-138