A arqueologia das ciências humanas de Michel Foucault: implicações epistemológicas

Abstract

The book Les mots et les choses composes a phase called archeology of knowledge of Michel Foucaults thought. Such work, as a proposal based on structuralism for the human sciences, suspends the view of traditional History of the Ideas or History of the Sciences, awakening the attention of the reader by its impressive ideas, but, at the same time, putting it sometimes in doubt or confused. Our research was conducted with the objective of clarifying certain points of the Foucaultian view of the human sciences and also to show problems in its formulation, by an epistemological point of analysis. By centralizing such work, but considering like an accessory the inflections of thought that followed its publication, we recognize the numerous philosophical reflections and discussions with the currents of its time, especially, the large criticism of humanistic systems of thinking.