In L'archéologie du savoir on page 236 'savoir is called : "l'état des
connaissances" at a given moment; so "connaissance" is positive knowledge on
a given topic or in a given discipline; "savoir" is the field of knowledge
or discursive formation at that moment, which makes this positive knowledge
possible.
yours
machiel karskens
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From: "Kevin Turner" <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Foucault-L] savoir - connaissance
> In "The Archaeology of Knowledge" Sheridan Smith makes the following
observation on the relation between savoir and connaissance:
>
> 'Connaissance refers...to a particular corpus of knowledge, a particular
discipline – biology or economics, for example. Savoir, which is usually
defined as knowledge in general, to totality of connaissance, is used by
Foucault in an underlying, rather than an overall, way. He has himself
offered the following comment on his usage of these terms: “By connaissance
I mean the relation of the subject to the object and the formal rules that
govern it. Savoir refers to the conditions that are necessary in a
particular period for this or that type of object to be given to
connaissance and for this or that type of enunciation to be formulated”'(AK:
15n2).
>
> The problem is, Sheridan Smith does not give a reference for Foucault's
comments: does anybody know where Foucault originally made this statement?
>
> Regards - Kevin.
>
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connaissances" at a given moment; so "connaissance" is positive knowledge on
a given topic or in a given discipline; "savoir" is the field of knowledge
or discursive formation at that moment, which makes this positive knowledge
possible.
yours
machiel karskens
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Turner" <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Foucault List" <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:12 PM
Subject: [Foucault-L] savoir - connaissance
> In "The Archaeology of Knowledge" Sheridan Smith makes the following
observation on the relation between savoir and connaissance:
>
> 'Connaissance refers...to a particular corpus of knowledge, a particular
discipline – biology or economics, for example. Savoir, which is usually
defined as knowledge in general, to totality of connaissance, is used by
Foucault in an underlying, rather than an overall, way. He has himself
offered the following comment on his usage of these terms: “By connaissance
I mean the relation of the subject to the object and the formal rules that
govern it. Savoir refers to the conditions that are necessary in a
particular period for this or that type of object to be given to
connaissance and for this or that type of enunciation to be formulated”'(AK:
15n2).
>
> The problem is, Sheridan Smith does not give a reference for Foucault's
comments: does anybody know where Foucault originally made this statement?
>
> Regards - Kevin.
>
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