Making history

Title: Making history
Creator: Falzon, Christopher
Relation: A Companion to Foucault p. 282-298
Relation: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Relation: http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444334069.html
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: This chapter looks at some of the ways Foucault remade history and rethought the relationship between history and philosophy. It looks at Foucault's rejection, not only of traditional philosophical history, but also of traditional empiricist approaches to history. Then it turns to his alternative view of history as the mapping of transformations of forms of thought. Finally, it considers the transformations his view undergoes, from the "archaeology" of the 1960s, and the "genealogy" of the 1970s, to the "historical ontology of ourselves and our present" in the early 1980s, out of which emerges an understanding of philosophy in which historical reflection plays an integral part. Foucault's genealogical reformulation of his historical approach radicalizes the identification of difference. While archaeology historicizes frameworks of understanding, it imposes its own kind of unity on history.
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341523
Identifier: uon:28760
Identifier: ISBN:9781444334067
Language: eng

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