Publisher's Synopsis
Foucault's Methods: Archaeology, Genealogy, Problematization offers a concise yet powerful exploration of Michel Foucault's most influential methodological tools. Rather than building a universal theory, Foucault challenges the very foundations of knowledge and truth, encouraging us to interrogate the frameworks that shape how we think, govern, and understand the world.
This book presents Foucault's archaeology as a method of uncovering the structures and rules that silently govern discourse. It then moves to genealogy, a historical analysis that traces how truths emerge from struggles, accidents, and power relations. Finally, it introduces problematization, Foucault's invitation to question what we take as "normal" and to imagine new ways of being and thinking.
Accessible yet rigorous, the book connects Foucault's theories to real-world examples-medicine, sexuality, crime, and institutions-revealing how power and knowledge co-produce reality. Each method is not just an analytical tool but a form of resistance, a refusal to accept the world as it is.
This is not a book that tells you what to think-it teaches you how to think otherwise.
Perfect for students, scholars, and anyone interested in critical theory, political discourse, and philosophy, this book is a practical and ethical guide to challenging the status quo.
