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Structuralist Epistemology - archaeology of knowledge
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╨╧рб▒с > ■ С У ■ П Р ье┴ 5@ Ё┐ 0 Ро bjbj╧2╧2 (ь нX нX ·а н И Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ " " " " 8 Z f ф " m v V V V V V V V V ╝ ╛ ╛ ╛ ╛ ╛ ╛ $ у R 5 М т E Ъ V V V V V т Ъ Ъ V V ' К К К V Ъ V Ъ V ╝ К V ╝ К К Ь Ъ Ъ Ь V J л┌║.У╟ " V Ь ╝ = 0 m Ь ┴ V 4 ┴ Ь о ф Т Р Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ ┴ Ъ Ь V V К V V V V V т т К PHI302 Module Title: Continental Philosophy Module leader: Dr John Mullarkey Lecture 11: Michel Foucault (1925-1984) 'ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE' (or 'Structuralist Epistemology') * Term used as early as (or retrospectively applied to) Madness and Civilization (p.111). * Cross-disciplinary, comparing statements concerning, eg, biological taxonomies with what was said about linguistic signs, formation of general ideas, language of action, hierarchy of needs, etc.[1] STRUCTURALISM * Never a 'purist'. * F himself always distanced himself from structuralism, saying that archaelogy's 'methods and concepts cannot possibly be confused with strucuralism' and that he had used 'none of the methods, concepts, or key terms that characterize structural analysis....'[2] Nonetheless, with passages from Madness and Civilization, like this: 'beneath these...meanings, a structure is forming which does not resolve the ambiguity but determines it. It is this structure which accounts for the transition from the medieval experience of madness to our own...
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