THE ERRORS OF HISTORY: knowledge and epistemology in bachelard, canguilhem and foucault. Issue 2 (4th March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ross, Alison
• Is Part Of: Angelaki. Volume 23:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 139
• Page End: 154
• Publication Date: 2018-03-04
• Subjects: error -- history -- rationalism -- epistemology -- science -- Gaston Bachelard -- Georges Canguilhem -- Michel Foucault; Literature -- Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2018.1451524
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0969-725X

Abstract

Abstract: This paper critically evaluates Foucault's relation to Bachelard and Canguilhem. It reconsiders the relevance of the concept of "influence" for treating this relation in order to register the more sceptical position Foucault adopts towards knowledge practices than either of these figures from twentieth-century French epistemology.