Foucault’s Analysis of Knowledge as Radicalisation
of Bachelard’s Temporal Rupture of the Ego Cover Image

Foucault žinojimo tyrimas kaip Bachelard’o laikinio ego pertrūkio radikalizacija
Foucault’s Analysis of Knowledge as Radicalisation of Bachelard’s Temporal Rupture of the Ego

Author(s): Daina Habdankaitė
Subject(s): Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Published by: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų
Keywords: Bachelard; epistemology; Foucault; knowledge; time;

Summary/Abstract: The paper claims that Michel Foucault’s thinking belongs to the tradition of French epistemology, represented by such thinkers as Georges Canguilhem and Gaston Bachelard. Previously little analysed temporal aspect of rupture, best developed in Bachelard’s thinking, is showcased to constitute the axis directing Foucault’s thinking. Both the temporal rupture in Foucault and levels of ego cogito in Bachelard are showcased to be organized by the same logic of historical orientation towards the future which is aimed at surpassing the Cartesian–Kantian understanding of the ego.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 9-26
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Lithuanian