Foucault's Archaeology

David Webb is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Staffordshire University. His publications include Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology, and papers on Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, and Jean Cavaillès.

• Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Background; 1. To what problem does The Archaeology of Knowledge respond?; 2. Gaston Bachelard; 3. Jean Cavaillès; 4. Michel Serres: Mathematics, Epistemology, History; 5. Michel Serres: Atomism; 6. The Mathematical A Priori; 7. Temporal Dispersion; Commentary, Archaeology of Knowledge; Part I Introduction; Introduction; Part II The Discursive Regularities; 1. The Unities of Discourse; 2. Discursive Formations; 3. The Formation of Objects; 4. The Formation of Enunciative Modalities; 5. The Formation of Concepts; 6. The Formation of Strategies; 7. Remarks and Consequences; Part III The Statement and the Archive; 1. Defining the Statement; 2. The Enunciative Function; 3. The Description of Statements; 4. Rarity, Exteriority, Accumulation; 5. The Historical a priori and the Archive; Part IV Archaeological Description; 1. Archaeology and the History of Ideas; 2. The Original and the Regular; 3. Contradictions; 4. The Comparative facts; 5. Change and Transformations; 6. Science and Knowledge; Part V; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.