LUCAS BITTENCOURT VASCONCELLOS

The purpose of this research is to study the relationships that Michel Foucault's archeology, as formulated in The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences, maintains with the structuralist ethnology of Claude Lévi-Strauss. To achieve this objective, we intend to observe that the main interpretative line traced by the reception of this work consisted in dissociating the role of the reference to Friedrich Nietzsche in the constitution of the foucauldian philosophical perspective from the approximation that it maintains with structuralism, with the objective of deducing from this approximation a deficiency in the historical approach of Foucault’s archaeology. An argument that, in the context of the debate between philosophy and human sciences in France in the 1960s, appeared as an attempt to prevent the idea that history could be thought of without reference to man. Therefore, it indicates, in reverse, that it is necessary to revitalize the nietzschean character of Foucault's mentioned work in order to understand how he was able to appropriate structuralism to make possible the writing of a non-anthropological history.