Episteme e letteratura : analisi sul linguaggio nel primo Foucault
Episteme and Literature: An Analysis of Language in Early Foucault

Summary/Abstract: In 1996 Foucault publishes Le parole e le cose, important work related to the relationship between knowledge and epistemes. The novelty of the philosopher's archaeological methodology leads him to reveal the inadequacy of the analysis methodology used in the historical analysis of knowledge and to show how historical becoming moves by fractures. The archaeology of knowledge thus binds the structuralist viewpoint to become historical and discovers the importance of created fractures in the various passages from one episteme to another. The central part of the above analysis will be the relationship between the language and the typical order of each era, up to the modernity in which language itself has lost its centrality towards the epistemic configuration. The analysis of modernity remains a critical point in Foucault's analysis. This is revealed only thanks to the ambiguous position that the philosopher can take and this thanks to the particular Being of the literary language that is realized in this era and that opens up to otherness and to a different order.

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