Machado, R. Foucault, philosophy, and literature, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Volume 16, Issue 2, 1 March 2012, Pages 227-234
https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2012.668814
Abstract
This article focuses on Foucault’s archeological books: Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things. It addresses two issues in particular: first, Foucault’s criticism of modern philosophical and scientific knowledge about man, showing how this knowledge is based on Nietzsche’s criticism of humanism in modernity; second, Foucault’s thoughts about modern literary language, contending that it is an affirmative counterpoint to the historic-philosophical analyses of knowledge about man he carried out during this archeological phase. In addition, the objective is to situate Foucault’s views on literature during this period of genealogies of power and subjectivity.
Author keywords
Foucault; Human Sciences; Language; Literature; Nietzsche; Philosophy
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