Michel Foucault and communication as événement

Abstract

In his beginning, devoted to the investigation of the anonymous discontinuity of knowledge, Michel Foucault goes after the representation’s theories. Afterwards, when he takes account of the failure of Humanistic discourse he undertakes – relying on Freud, Marx and Nietzsche – his “excavations of the heights” aiming to work in the perverse at the inner of language and to practice a way of thinking setting out “from the exterior”. His proposals to study the subjacent structures of knowledge lives in harmony together with the theory of the incorporeals, that Foucault seems to use. However, not everything seems to be explained: his exaltation of Linguistics in 20

th century, with its incredible capacities to mathematize und to formalize the thought, that brings it near to Structuralism do not combine with his stoic research of the Event. Moreover: the subject that he intended to exclude goes on living in its pulverized form; the freedom that he proclaims – his Sartrean heritage – is repressive as well and the notion of power – central in his writings – does not seem to be separated from a metaphysical way of looking.