The Longing of the Things, the Archeology of Feelings and the Foucauldian Trompe l’Oleil

Abstract

In History and the Social Sciences: Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, structuralist and postmodern authors disregard-ed the ideas of man, feelings, values and contingency. The concepts of structure, language and power become the new keys in order to explain the past and the social world. However, tastes and feelings that these authors flatly refused were displayed in their texts in an oblique mode. In this paper, the textual double bind of these authors is exposed through the case studies of the history of things, the history of feelings and the historiographical analysis of the master work of Michel Foucault: Histoire de la folie á l´ Âge classique.

Keywords

• posmodernismo
• historia de las cosas
• historia de los sentimientos
• michel foucault