Archival research and the problematizing action in Foucault
Abstract
Michel Foucault used several analytical tools in his research, but an investigative action was present throughout his archeogenealogical journey: problematization. By considering this notion, this text aims to archive some problematizing actions by Michel Foucault in the work The hermeneutics of the subject (2010a), which brings together his classes taught at the Collège de France in the 1981-1982 period. The archiving was grounded on the systematic reading of the classes of that course, in order to identify all the problems posed by Michel Foucault. The problems were taken as statements, as elements of the archive, and it was possible to observe their functioning throughout the classes. Each problem was pinpointed in the work with the use of the following markers: book page, time (1A or 2A), class date (day/month/year). The problems addressed by Foucault along the course and traced throughout the work were filed into four categories: a) problem triggering the investigation; b) historical-procedural problems; c) problems addressing the present; d) problems addressing the archive. Michel Foucault's investigative-problematizing action, linked to archival research, can be taken as a way of investigating how the form of the problem comes into play throughout the entire thought process. The Foucauldian problematization is not caused only by a triggering problem, which changes throughout the investigation, but also by finding problems in the archive itself. This text can work as an archive of the problematizations of The hermeneutics of the subject, by Michel Foucault (2010a), a reading support for other investigations.
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