Michel Foucault's Epistemology [F-Er.64] Semestr letni 2024/2025
Wykład, grupa nr 1

Recommended reading:

Bernauer J.W., Michel Foucault's Force of Flight Toward an Ethics for Thought, Humanity Books, New York 1990.

Continental Philosophy of Science, ed. G. Gutting, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Oxford, Victoria 2005.

Dreyfus H.L., Rabinow P, Michel Foucault, Beyond Structuralism Second edition With an Afterword by and an Interview with Michel Foucault, The Univ Chicago Press, Chicago 1983.

Foucault and His Interlocution, ed., Introduced A.I. Davidson, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1997.

Foucault and Heidegger. Critical Encounters, ed. A. Milchman, A. Rosenberg, The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2003.

Foucault and Philosophy, ed. T. O’Leary, Ch. Falzon, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2010.

Gutting G, French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge2001.

Macey D., The Lives of Michel Foucault. A Biography, Vintage Books, New York 1993.

Soussloff C.M., Foucault on Painting Univ. of Minnesota Press Minneapolis Lon-don2017.

Foucault M., The Archeology of Knowledge, trans A Sheridan, M Smith, Random House/ Pantheon, New York 1972).

Foucault M., The Order of Things An Archeology of the Human Sciences, Routledge, London - New York 2002.

Foucault M., The Politics of Truth [ed S. Lotringer] Semiotexte 2007

Foucault M., This is not a Pipe University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London 1983

1. Preliminary lecture – science or sciences? Modern models of a philoso-phy of science(s).

2. Historical background of Foucault’s epistemology.

3. Foucault in search of the model for the history of thought.

4. "Archeology" as a philosophical term in the XX century: Husserl, Freud,

5. French philosophy of sciences – G. Bachelard, G. Canguilhem.

6. Structuralism – “I am not a structuralist. I’m not an analytic philosopher – nobody is perfect.”

7. Archeology of the human sciences. The death of “Man”

a) What is an “episteme”? Two kinds of knowledge: savoir and con-naisance.

b) „Positivie unconscious of knowledge”

c) The uniqueness of historical process of human sciences

8. Man, and his doubles.

9. Science and Art – opposition or complementarity?

a) Literature and epistemic fiction

b) Regimes of representation in art and its critical function

10. Archeology of the knowledge. Discourses of sciences.

a) What is a "discourse"?

b) What is truth?

c) “Epistemologization” of a discourse – historical a priori

d) “another archeologies”

11. Extended Foucauldian discourse theory. The power of discourse.

12. Discourse in action. What is pharresia?

13. Nietzsche and Heidegger –“non-archeologizable” knowledge.

Tutorials, analysis, interpretation and discussion of texts

Class participation and an oral presentation