Acontecimento e discurso em Michel Foucault

Abstract

The purpose of this text is approaching the concepts of event and discourse in Michel Foucault in order to demonstrate how, despite the concept of event gained more relevance in the 1970s, such notion were already considered and linked to each other in the 1960s. It is well-known that, genealogically, Foucault formulated well the concept of event in historical practice, but the explanation of his archeologic “method”, through the concept of “discursive event” or “discursive practice”, was already displaying the necessity of thinking the language or the discourse in an event-ual manner. Whether the event is the effect of the bodies or is incorporeal, discourse is event-ual insofar as it is the expression of a feeling, of an individuality that is pre-existent to reality.

Keywords

• event
• discourse
• language