FOUCAULT, ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE, AND AESTHETICS OF EXISTENCE

ABSTRACT. Foucault sketches three kinds of human relationships and links each to a prominent ethical school in the Greco-Roman world. Foucault is concerned with forging a new approach to historical analysis but not with the meta-question of how to understand and justify this approach philosophically. Foucault defines the conditions for the reality of statements in terms of the rules that govern their use.