TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Foucault’s Archaeologies of the Human Sciences
Wednesday 15 October 2025 is the 99th anniversary of the birth of Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 - 25 June 1984), who was born in Poitiers on this date in 1926.
Foucault wrote a series of works that he called archaeologies and genealogies, which sought to trace the development of our épistèmé—our system of thought, if you will. Foucault suggested that the appearance of man as such, as the object of the human sciences (which were on the receiving end of his archaeologies), was an artifact of the épistèmé of the Classical Age, and, with the passing of the Classical Age, man too man disappear, like a face drawn in the sand at the edge of the sea.
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