Discontinuity and transformation in Michel Foucault: temporality, spatiality, history

Author(s)

Tiago Viotto da Silva

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Assis. 2023-04-18.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis
• Defense date: 2023-02-03
• Advisor: Hélio Rebello Cardoso Júnior

Abstract

This thesis proposes a reflection on Michel Foucault’s conception of history through the prism of discontinuity. It is argued that the multiple variables that can be drawn by the analysis of this notion, in its epistemological, ethical, aesthetic, and political consequences, not only give rise to the different lines of forces that constitute a philosophy of history immanent to Foucault’s intellectual trajectory, but also allows the understanding of his practice of reading and writing history as invariably linked to the dynamics of his thought. More than aspiring to an absolute and definitive approach, this initiative aims, on the one hand, to make Foucault’s thought resonate with important themes for the field of Theory of History, such as historical temporality and spatiality, and, on the other hand, to risk a localized interpretation aligned with the vicissitudes of our present. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 17/15656-0 - Michel Foucault and the history: from the critical posture to the genealogical writing (1954-1984)
• Grantee: Tiago Viotto da Silva
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate