The Phenomenological Allegory: From "Death and the Labyrinth" to "The Order of Things"

Rajan, Tilottama

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“…(2) For a totally different interpretation of Foucault's interest in the work of Blanchot and Roussel, providing a``hiding place of a cryptic phenomenology'', see Rajan (1988). studies, The Order of Things and The Archaeology of Knowledge (Foucault, 19701972[1969; see Deleuze, 1988;Dreyfus and Rabinow, 1982) but I want to make a more general point here linking Roussel to Foucault's wider archaeological approach that runs throughout his work.…”

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Foucault's Spatial Combat

Johnson

2008

Environ Plan D

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Many diverse spatial features within Foucault's historical studies have been analysed productively within Anglophone human geography. Although much of this work has tended to focus on Foucault's mid to later projects, especially around issues of health, surveillance, governmentality, and sexuality, his earlier archaeological studies have also produced fruitful avenues of research. Concentrating on the latter, and taking up Elden's notion of Foucault's use of space as a tool of analysis, I explore how Foucault's intense study of modern literature, particularly Roussel and Blanchot, contributes to underlying modes of spatialisation that drive his study of the history of clinical medicine, as well as the complex explanation of his archaeological approach. Following Deleuze, I argue that these spatialisations are both the instrument and the object of his studies. They generate devices and tactics for dismantling established methods of analysis and manifest the powerful, multiple effects of discourse, whilst remaining meticulously at the level of description.

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Foucault's Spatial Combat

Johnson

2008

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“…It has been defined as the varying perspectives of a story that can be constructed to make experience comprehensible [22] (p. 37), the treatment of data as stories [23] where narrative data are the result of a communication exchange [24] and an understanding of how human actions are related to the social context in which they occur including where and how [25]. In choosing narrative research to investigate The Order of Things, it is recognized both that Foucault tells a story about the differences among the three periods of scientific thinking he identifies and, at the same time, that this story does not follow an obvious plot and has a literary structure that has been described as "baroque" [26] (p. 449). Primarily, this meandering plot is what makes the analysis offered in the book so difficult to decipher.…”

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A Framework for European Thought on Psychology, Education and Health Based on Foucault’s The Order of Things

Nash¹

2022

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In European thought, the relationship among the fields of psychology, education, and health is both complex and obscured. Foucault’s acclaimed work, The Order of Things, offers a framework to evaluate their interconnection by identifying three distinct periods of European thought since the 16th century with respect to the ordering of phenomena—Renaissance, Classical and Modern. Theoretically dense and often difficult to decipher, the book’s categorization of language, value and being has been understandably underused, yet it provides deep insights into what have come to be known as psychology, education and health and remains invaluable in understanding the origin, limits and consequences of these fields. How Foucault’s analysis can be interpreted concerning the development of these areas as to each of the three periods of European thought is investigated. An approach based on narrative research appraises the analysis offered in the book. The results, presented for the first time in table form, compare these three periods, demonstrating a continuing practical value to Foucault’s insights. With the aid of the framework revealed by these tables, the boundaries and relationship of psychology, education and health become clear and their limitations—plus potential solutions to them—can be identified to mitigate anticipated negative consequences.

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The Secret Subject: Michel Foucault, <i>Death and the Labyrinth,</i> and the Interview as Genre

Arnold¹

2012

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The Phenomenological Allegory: From "Death and the Labyrinth" to "The Order of Things"

Cited by 4 publications

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Foucault's Spatial Combat

Foucault's Spatial Combat

A Framework for European Thought on Psychology, Education and Health Based on Foucault’s The Order of Things

The Secret Subject: Michel Foucault, <i>Death and the Labyrinth,</i> and the Interview as Genre

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