Michelio Foucault istoriosofija kaip kritinis projektas
Historiosophy by Michel Foucault as a Critical Project

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the specific notion of philosophical historicism of Michel Foucault. The interaction between historiography and historiosophy is based on the paradoxical dualism of historicism versus transcendentalism in the philosophical system or “archeology of thinking” of Foucault. In the paper, the main historiographical and philosophical influences on Foucault’s philosophical historiosophy are gradually exposed. It could be agreed that Foucault’s historiosophy or archeology was influenced by the French Historical Method known as The Annales Paradigm, by some concepts of the philosophy of science and philosophical anthropology of Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, and Georges Bataille, and also by some phenomenologists such as Edmund Husserrl. The philosophical interpretation and especially critical interpellation of the course of history and historical events could be assimilated to Foucault’s archeological method. Moreover, Foucault’s philosophical historiosophy could be perceived not only as pure philosophical theorization, but rather as “a critical theorizing practice” capable to denounce those clichés of historical narratives which are generally considered as “natural historical processes” or so called “historical transcendentalism.” In conclusion, one can say that, in Foucault’s archaeology or historiosophy, several types of regimes of methodological thinking could be spelled out, balancing between neo-Kantian anthropology and neo-Hegelian historical transcendentalism while attempting to contradict these modes of thinking at the same time.

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