I could be wrong, but the reference to Gutting's book was most likely
his Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason, Cambridge
University Press.
On Sep 23, 2007, at 9:00 AM, suniti sharma wrote:
On Sep 23, 2007, at 9:00 AM, suniti sharma wrote:
Gutting's book is titled:
Foucault A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
--- John narayan <thesignofthetimes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hey Jared,_________________________________________________________________
Tricky question that will no doubt get different
answers.
I am of the persuasion that there is a break in the
two methodologies;
mainly because I take archaeology to suffer from
issues it never gets
around. For example,
1) The relationship between the Discursive and
Non-Discursive (something I
think genealogy gets round via its focus on
practises).
2) The generality of the archives Foucault describes
and what could be
argued to be a return of a quasi-transcendental in
his own work.
3) The reflexivity and epistemological status of
Foucault's own
archaeologies.
You can see Foucault grappling with some of these
problems; for example, see
the English preface to the Order of Things and the
Archaeology of Knowledge.
On the other hand, other authors don’t see the above
problems in Archaeology
(I’m thinking of Gutting’s book but can’t remember
the title).
Foucault is pretty patchy on highlighting the
differences between the two
methods but the book I found most helpful was by
Todd May:
(1993), Between Genealogy and Epistemology:
Psychology, politics and
Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault
(University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania Press)
I don’t know you familiarity level concerning
Foucault’s work, but if not
high, try reading May’s introduction to Foucault
beforehand, which does a
good job of introducing the differences whilst
stressing the continuity
between the two methods.
BTW, I would not get too bogged down in Foucault's
recasting of his own
project, it happens at various times throughout his
career. And roughly, the
works do all address the historical ontology of
ourselves that Foucault
denotes in What is Enlightenment.
John
From: "Jared Kennard" <jaredkennard@xxxxxxxxx>it anyway. I have been
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Subject: [Foucault-L] Genealogy Archaeology Divide
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:36:05 -0600
This question may seem a bit naive but I will ask
doing some research on Foucault's genealogy andarchaeology and have come
tolatter is more or less
the conclusion that in the course of his work the
replaced by the former. I began my inquiry withthe understanding that the
early works of Foucault were conducted under a sortof rubric of
archaeology, as he lays out in various places. Itseems, however, that he
finds this method unsatisfactory and moves to thegenealogical method
instead. My problem is that in stead of a cleanbreak or clear
differentiation between the two methodologies heseems to simply recast his
works as works of genealogy instead of archaeology.In the interview he
gave with Rabinow and Dreyfus entitled "On theGenealogy of Ethics" he
states that: "three domains of genealogy arepossible," and that "all three
were present...in Madness and Civilization."Furthermore, The Birth of the
Clinic and The Order of Things studied one of thesethree axis, while
Discipline and Punish and History of SexualityStudied the other two. With
out getting into the specifics of what these threepossibilities are, since
that doesn't seem relevant to the problem at hand,it does seem quite
obvious that he is brushing over earlier statementshe has made about his
early works being archaeology's; or perhaps he isattempting to apply a
sorthave said above is
of discursive eraser.
Ultimately my problem boils down to this: if what I
correct than where, if anywhere, does he talk aboutthis move he has made?
Has archaeology been removed as an analytical tooldue to the problems this
methodology creates? And if so in what ways doesgenealogy differ from its
predecessor? How is it that the genealogical formcan simply replace the
archaeological one?appreciated.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly
Jared
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