“Psychoanalysis and Ethnology” Revisited: Foucault's Historicization of History
Abstract
This article re‐examines the closing sections of Michel Foucault's The Order of Things in order to address the longstanding question of whether he is best understood as a philosopher or a historian. My central argument is that this question misses the crucial point of Foucault's work, which is to historicize the notion of history (as it is traditionally understood, represented by History with a capital H), which Foucault takes to be central to...
Paper Details
Title
“Psychoanalysis and Ethnology” Revisited: Foucault's Historicization of History
Published Date
Aug 30, 2017
Volume
55
Issue
S1
Pages
31 - 46
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