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Article Dans Une Revue Les études philosophiques Année : 2015

L’exception mathématique

David Rabouin

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In its introductory chapter, The Archeology of Knowledge lays out a very general program of discourse analysis in the twofold legacy of the “Nouvelle Histoire” and the French tradition of “historical epistemology”. In the last chapter, however, we learn that such an archeological approach cannot attain the sciences. At the very most, it can investigate the various thresholds via which science might emerge from “knowledge” – with one exception: “There is perhaps only one science for which one can neither distinguish these different thresholds, nor describe a similar set of shifts: mathematics”. In this paper I will examine this mathematical exception as a symptom of a move that Foucault did not want to make. A situation made more curious still by the favorable ear given to Archeology of Knowledge by the History of Mathematics community. Calling to mind the conditions of this reception of Foucault’s work as well as its duration in present day research, I will indicate the contemporary pertinence of an Archaeology of Mathematics.

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halshs-01519361 , version 1 (06-05-2017)

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David Rabouin. L’exception mathématique. Les études philosophiques, 2015, Comment lire L’Archéologie du savoir de Michel Foucault ?, 153, pp. 413-430. ⟨halshs-01519361⟩
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