Foucault e a questão da expansão metodológica

Abstract

This paper aims to understand how the french philosopher Michel Foucault (1926 1984) argumentatively expands its methodological practice, in the measure it adds one to each other, and in step which discovers them, methods for historical research. Tensing achieve such intent, makes up study on: how their methods are structured in bunt; the objects of study for which these methods turn about (objects which, in turn, influence them); the conclusions it arrives the author in his historical research, under the mediation of the used methods. With the clarification of these axes, it is shown that the archeology of knowledge  Artigo recebido em 24/02/14 e aprovado para publicacao pelo Conselho Editorial em 10/05/2014.  Mestre em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual do Ceara, Brasil. Professor do Departamento de Pedagogia da Universidade Estadual Vale do Acarau, Brasil. Curriculo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9792290555216316. E-mail: leoribeiro22@gmail.com.  Bacharel em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual do Ceara, Brasil. Curriculo lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3949067729606624. E-mail: janainamonteiro.jsm88@gmail.com. Synesis, v. 6, n. 1, p. 149-176, jan/jun. 2014, ISSN 1984-6754 © Universidade Catolica de Petropolis, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 150 and genealogy of power are not strictly operations of research, organized in printed material in the form of books. They also treat, above all, of instruments which contains well-defined political purpose, which is: to denounce or even expose, as political claim, the arbitrary character which is hidden behind the legitimated scientific discourses, demonstrating what which lead the such legitimation is the imanent supression, the subjection, of distinct speeches – operation that follows through relations of power / knowledge which permeate institutions, as well as extending in range to the internal structure of social space in its entirety.