Abstract

MUNHOZ, Angélica Vier  and  RIBEIRO, Inauã Weirich. Archival research and the problematizing gesture in Foucault. Acta Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.45, e66370.  Epub Aug 01, 2023. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v45i1.66370.

Michel Foucault employed several analytical tools in his research, but an investigative gesture was present throughout his “archeogenealogical” journey: problematization. Considering this notion, this text aims to archive some problematizing gestures by Michel Foucault in the work The hermeneutics of the subject (2010a), which collects his classes taught at the Collège de France in the 1981-1982 period. The archiving was grounded on the systematic reading of the classes of that course, in order to identify all the problems posed by Michel Foucault. The problems were raised as statements, as elements of the archive, and it was possible to observe their functioning throughout the classes. Each problem was pinpointed in the work with the use of the following markers: book page, time (1A or 2A), class date (day/month/year). The problems addressed by Foucault along the course and traced throughout the work were archived into four categories: a) problem that triggers the investigation; b) problems of a historical-procedural order; c) problems that address the present; d) problems that address the archive. Michel Foucault's investigative-problematizing gesture, associated with archival research, can be considered as a means of investigating how the form of the problem comes into play throughout the entire thought process. The Foucauldian problematization is not caused only by a triggering problem, which changes throughout the investigation, but also by finding problems in the archive itself. This text can work as an archive of the problematizations of The hermeneutics of the subject, by Michel Foucault (2010a), a reading support for other investigations.

Keywords : archive; procedure; research.

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