Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason

Science and the History of Reason

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This book is an important introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of the major French thinker Michel Foucault. Through comprehensive and detailed analyses of such important texts as The History of Madness in the Age of Reason, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, and The Archaeology of Knowledge, Professor Gutting provides a lucid exposition of Foucault's 'archaeological' approach to the history of thought - a method for uncovering the 'unconscious' structures that set boundaries on the thinking of a given epoch. The book also casts Foucault in a new light, relating his work to two major but neglected influences: Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of science and Georges Canguilhem's history of science. This perspective yields a new and valuable understanding of science, balancing and complementing the more common view that he was primarily a social critic and theorist. An excellent guide for those first approaching Foucault's work, the book will also be a challenging interpretation and evaluation for those already familiar with his writings.

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"Gutting knows [Foucault's works] well. He summarizes them with clarity and precision and makes some valuable criticisms. The book is also exceptional in its treatment of the cultural context of the earlier Foucault." David Revill, The Times Literary Supplement "...Gary Gutting is the most likely to bring to historians of science a Foucault they will find comprehensible, if not uniformly congenial." Isis

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Bachelard and Canguilhem	p. 9
Bachelard's philosophy of science	p. 12
Reason and science	p. 13
Bachelard's model of scientific change	p. 14
The epistemological and metaphysical ramifications of Bachelard's model	p. 22
Canguilhem's history of science	p. 32
Canguilhem's conception of the history of science	p. 32
Canguilhem's conception of norms	p. 45
Foucault and the Bachelard-Canguilhem network	p. 52
Madness and mental illness	p. 55
Early writings on mental illness	p. 55
Madness in the Classical Age	p. 69
Mental illness and the asylum	p. 87
The voice of madness	p. 95
The history of madness: methods and results	p. 100
Clinical medicine	p. 111
Classical medicine	p. 112
A new medical consciousness	p. 115
The clinic as an institution	p. 118
The linguistic structure of medical signs	p. 120
The probabilistic structure of medical cases	p. 122
Seeing and saying	p. 124
Anatomo-clinical medicine	p. 127
The birth of the clinic: methods and results	p. 133
The order of things: I. From resemblance to representation	p. 139
The Renaissance episteme	p. 140
Classical order	p. 146
Classical signs and language	p. 148
Classical knowledge	p. 155
General grammar	p. 157
Natural history	p. 162
Analysis of wealth	p. 169
The common structure of the Classical domains	p. 173
Critical reactions	p. 175
The order of things: II. The rise and fall of man	p. 181
The modern episteme	p. 181
Philosophy	p. 184
Modern empirical sciences	p. 186
Language and modern thought	p. 195
Man and the analytic of finitude	p. 198
The human sciences	p. 208
The order of things: methods and results	p. 217
The archaeology of knowledge	p. 227
The elements of archaeology	p. 231
Statements	p. 239
Archaeology and the history of ideas	p. 244
Archaeology and the history of science	p. 249
Discourse and the nondiscursive	p. 256
Conclusion	p. 260
Reason and philosophy	p. 261
Archaeological method and Foucault's philosophical project	p. 262
Is Foucault's critique of reason self-refuting?	p. 272
Conclusion	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 289
Index	p. 304
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