ELIVELTON LEONEL DA SILVA

Looking at the two epistemic discontinuities that, according to Michel Foucault, gave conditions of possibility to the human sciences and modern knowledge, the main objective of this research is to analyze how the archaeology of “The Order of Things” distinguishes itself from the “history of ideas” and criticizes the anthropological imperative of modernity, establishing a reflection that articulates, at the same time, the break with the dialectical explanation of history and the affirmation of the reappearance of the “being-of-language” in the order of knowledge of the 20th century. To do this, it will be necessary to think about the discontinuity between the ways of knowing and understanding language in the classical and modern epistemes. Thus, highlighting the discursive and discontinuous nature of the archaeology of the human sciences, we will position “laughter” as an alternative instrument of reflection that opposes the monotony of the totalizing airs that the notio