Foucault's ArchaeologyScience and Transformation
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Puts The Archaeology of Knowledge at the heart of Foucault's thought
- Sheds new light on a crucial period of Foucault's work
- Highlights Foucault's relation to thinkers such as Cavailles and Serres
- Interdisciplinary appeal to continental philosophers, critical theorists, analytical philosophers and philosophers of mathematics
David Webb reveals the extent to which Foucault's approach to language in The Archaeology of Knowledge was influenced by the mathematical sciences, adopting a mode of thought indebted to thinkers in the scientific and epistemological traditions. By aligning his thought with the challenge to Kantian philosophy from mathematics and science in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, he shows how Foucault established his own perspective on the future of critical philosophy.
Table of contents
Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Background; 1. To what problem does The Archaeology of Knowledge respond?; 2. Gaston Bachelard; 3. Jean Cavaillès; 4. Michel Serres: Mathematics, Epistemology, History; 5. Michel Serres: Atomism; 6. The Mathematical A Priori; 7. Temporal Dispersion; Commentary, Archaeology of Knowledge; Part I Introduction; Introduction; Part II The Discursive Regularities; 1. The Unities of Discourse; 2. Discursive Formations; 3. The Formation of Objects; 4. The Formation of Enunciative Modalities; 5. The Formation of Concepts; 6. The Formation of Strategies; 7. Remarks and Consequences; Part III The Statement and the Archive; 1. Defining the Statement; 2. The Enunciative Function; 3. The Description of Statements; 4. Rarity, Exteriority, Accumulation; 5. The Historical a priori and the Archive; Part IV Archaeological Description; 1. Archaeology and the History of Ideas; 2. The Original and the Regular; 3. Contradictions; 4. The Comparative facts; 5. Change and Transformations; 6. Science and Knowledge; Part V; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.