Foucault, epistemology and history

Journal/Book: Econ Soc. 1998; 27: 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE, England. Routledge. 285-297.

Abstract: This paper explores the way in which Michel Foucault utilized, re-worked and applied, in the field of the analysis. Of epistemological transformations, certain concepts from the history of the sciences that had been deployed by Bachelard and Canguilhem. More particularly, the paper focuses attention, on the one hand, upon the distinction between the present and the actual, from which derives the question of 'recurrence', and, on the other, on the idea of games of the true and the false.

Note: Article Delaporte F, Universite Picardie, Amiens, FRANCE

Keyword(s): Canguilhem; Foucault; epistemology; recurrent method; monstrosity; error

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