The Method's Discourse and the Epistemic Breakthroughs in Foucault's Though; Critical Review

Abstract

Michel Foucault's philosophy raises radical problems that violently strike at the boundaries of the unthinkable, and is positioned as intellectual systems that undermine transcendental hights and transcend the metaphysical vision that has mortgaged history, and generate new epistemological dilemmas that were positioned on the margins, to reshape the features of the Western mind by penetrating familiar borders and establishing a revolution of breaks through which Foucault shattered Western rationality, and he stripped its centrality and revealed its hidden face by opposing some of the pillars of discursive practices in modern thought to build post-modern paradigms/epistemes that contributed to the re-establishment of Western rationality.

Foucault's critical practices are characterized by the absence of methodological stability; he practiced the break on the dominance of structuralism, founding the archaeological hammer and using the violence of genealogy to overcome the blockage of excavations, and to transfer writing in the history of ideas through the eras to the stage of celebrating breaks and hating origins, interrogating the archive to search for the repressed, thus causing cracks in the history of ideas, and revealing the illusions of Western rationality, and liberating knowledge from the trap of the authority of transcendent subjects, directing it towards the unspoken that lies in the gaps