Archive as a Battlefield of Truth - The Concept of History in Michel Foucault's Philosophy

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25770031
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Kyoto University (2014); Ritsumeikan University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: HAKODA Tetsu 京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 研究員 (40570156)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ミシェル・フーコー / ジュディス・バトラー / セクシュアリティ / 戦争 / 統治 / 現代思想

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research project studied how Michel Foucault used historical materials or "archive" to advance his unique relational theory or power. We showed that Foucault criticizes law-sovereignty based theories of power to develop an alternative war-model model of society and that he details how an individual in the past lived her own life in the concrete network of power-knowledge, archive plays a crucial part. We also pointed out the importance of the notion of "truth-game" in these interventions as it not only helps to focus the relationship between truth, subject, and power, but, in so doing, articulates his theory of power to that of government.

Free Research Field

哲学・倫理学、思想史