Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason: Science and the History of Reason

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Cambridge University Press, 1989 M09 29 - 306 páginas
This is an important introduction to and critical interpretation of the work of the major French thinker, Michel Foucault. Through comprehensive and detailed analyses of such important texts as The History of Madness in the Age of Reason, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, and The Archaeology of Knowledge, the author provides a lucid exposition of Foucault's "archaeological" approach to the history of thought, a method for uncovering the "unconscious" structures that set boundaries on the thinking of a given epoch. The book casts Foucault in a new light, relating his work to Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of science and Georges Canguilhem's history of science. This perspective yields a new and valuable understanding of Foucault as a historian and philosopher of science, balancing and complementing the more common view of him as primarily a social critic and theorist.

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Introduction
1
Bachelard and Canguilhem
9
Bachelards philosophy of science
12
Reason and science
13
Bachelards model of scientific change
14
The epistemological and metaphysical ramifications of Bachelards model
22
Canguilhems history of science
32
Canguilhems conception of norms
45
Classical knowledge
155
General grammar
157
Natural history
162
Analysis of wealth
169
The common structure of the Classical domains
173
Critical reactions
175
The order of things II The rise and fall of man
181
Philosophy
184

Foucault and the BachelardCanguilhem network
52
Madness and mental illness
55
Madness in the Classical Age
69
Mental illness and the asylum
87
The voice of madness
95
methods and results
100
Clinical medicine
111
Classical medicine
112
A new medical consciousness
115
The clinic as an institution
118
The linguistic structure of medical signs
120
The probabilistic structure of medical cases
122
Seeing and saying
124
Anatomoclinical medicine
127
methods and results
133
The order of things I From resemblance to representation
139
The Renaissance episteme
140
Classical order
146
Classical signs and language
148
Modern empirical sciences
186
Language and modern thought
195
Man and the analytic of finitude
198
The human sciences
208
methods and results
217
The archaeology of knowledge
227
The elements of archaeology
231
Statements
239
Archaeology and the history of ideas
244
Archaeology and the history of science
249
Discourse and the nondiscursive
256
Conclusion
260
Reason and philosophy
261
Archaeological method and Foucaults philosophical project
262
Is Foucaults critique of reason selfrefuting?
272
Conclusion
287
Bibliography
289
Index
304
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