Foucault: a face drawn in sand, historical discontinuity, and “jeux de vérité”
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archeology, genealogy, human sciences, critical theory, discontinuity, skepticism, “jeux de vérité"Abstract
The death of man proclaimed by Foucault is in close relationship with the death of God proclaimed by Nietzsche. The return of language is linked with the disappearance of man. History is discontinuos. Foucault doubted the truths of each era as well as the timeless truths. In this article I present man’s journey in Foucault’s Les mots et les choses, showing the tension between language and the disappearance of man, I talk about historical discontinuity and the “jeux de vérité”, and I argue that Foucault considered himself, above all, a skeptical thinker.
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