Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought
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Archaeological Methodology : Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought. / Krarup, Troels.
In: Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 38, No. 5, 2021, p. 3-24.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Archaeological Methodology
T2 - Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought
AU - Krarup, Troels
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Existing accounts of Foucault’s archaeological methodology have not (a) contextualized the concept properly within the intellectual field of its emergence and (b) explained why it is called ‘archaeology’ and not simply ‘history’. Foucault contributed to the field of ‘history of systems of thought’ in France around 1960 by broadening its scope from the study of scientific and philosophical systems into systems of ‘knowledge’ in a wider sense. For Foucault, the term ‘archaeology’ provided a response to new methodological questions arising from this initiative. Archaeological methodology had already been developed into a distinct comparative approach for the study of linguistic and cultural systems, notably by Dumézil. Foucault redevised archaeological methodology for the post-Hegelian tradition of studying ‘problems’ prevalent in the history of systems of thought. The article thus furnishes the groundwork for a ‘sociological archaeology’ or ‘problem analysis’ that is not particularly dependent on Foucault as a social theorist of power.
AB - Existing accounts of Foucault’s archaeological methodology have not (a) contextualized the concept properly within the intellectual field of its emergence and (b) explained why it is called ‘archaeology’ and not simply ‘history’. Foucault contributed to the field of ‘history of systems of thought’ in France around 1960 by broadening its scope from the study of scientific and philosophical systems into systems of ‘knowledge’ in a wider sense. For Foucault, the term ‘archaeology’ provided a response to new methodological questions arising from this initiative. Archaeological methodology had already been developed into a distinct comparative approach for the study of linguistic and cultural systems, notably by Dumézil. Foucault redevised archaeological methodology for the post-Hegelian tradition of studying ‘problems’ prevalent in the history of systems of thought. The article thus furnishes the groundwork for a ‘sociological archaeology’ or ‘problem analysis’ that is not particularly dependent on Foucault as a social theorist of power.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - archaeology
KW - Foucault
KW - French epistemological school
KW - history of sytems of thought
KW - methodology
KW - problem analysis
KW - problematization
KW - archaeology
KW - Foucault
KW - French epistemological school
KW - history of systems of thought, methodology, problem analysis, problematization
KW - methodology
KW - problem analysis
KW - problematization
U2 - 10.1177/0263276420984528
DO - 10.1177/0263276420984528
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 3
EP - 24
JO - Theory, Culture and Society
JF - Theory, Culture and Society
SN - 0263-2764
IS - 5
ER -
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