A PRAGMÁTICA DO DISCURSO DE FOUCAULT

Abstract

This paper aims at clarifying the horizon in which the pragmatic analysis
of Foucault's discourse arises, inserting it in the course of philosophical reflection on
language, as well as its meaning and political potential. For this we will focus on the
following Foucalult’s works: The order of discourse and Archeology of knowledge. This
paper is composed of two parts: in the first part, we will register Foucault in the two major
ruptures in the investigation of language: the Platonic rupture with pre-Socratic thought
and the rupture operated by Saussure in relation to tradition; Then we will clarify the
meaning of Foucault's discourse analysis and how it serves as an emancipatory political
project. Thereby we intend to reissue the invitation that this fascinating philosopher still
addresses to us, which is, the entering into the risky order of discourse that, although it
has been for so long considered by tradition as an enemy to be slaughtered, not only obeys
laws and Regularities that are yet to be discovered, as well as it opens to us a new world
of possibilities.