Foucault's archaeology : science and transformation / [electronic resource]
Webb, David(David A.),author.
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 such as Cavailles and Serres. 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-177) and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
The unities of discourse -- Discursive formations -- The formation of objects -- The formation of enunciative modalities -- The formation of concepts -- The formation of strategies -- Remarks and consequences -- Defining the statement -- The enunciative funcion -- The description of statements -- Rarity, exteriority, accumulation -- The historical a priori and the archive -- Archaeology and the history of ideas -- The original and the regular -- Contradictions -- The comparative facts -- Change and transformations -- Science and knowledge.
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 such as Cavailles and Serres. 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.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Discourse analysis.
Power (Social sciences)
Knowledge, Sociology of.

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