Historicity of Hebrew, Archeology of Human
Experience Stressed in Foucault Philosophy
The author interestingly con-
It is as an archeology of human
experience that the highly ac- cludes:
claimed French philosophic work
"Man is neither the oldest nor
by Michel Foucault, "The Order the most constant problem that
of Things," appears in an English has been posed for human knowl-
translation, published by Pantheon edge. Taking a relatively short
Books.
chronological sample within a
In French it was published as restricted geographical area —
"Les Moth et les Choses" and its European culture since the 16th
basic text deals with the concept Century—one can be certain that
man is a recent invention within
of man.
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Foucault deals with history and
its effects, with mercantilism,
wealth, labor, every aspect of ho-
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it. It is not around him and his
secrets that knowledge prowled
for so long in the darkness. In
fact, among all the mutations
that have affected the knowledge
of things and their order, the
knowledge of identities, diffe-
rences, characters, equivalents,
words—in short, in the midst of
all the episodes of that profound
history of the same—only one,
that which began a century and
a half ago and is now perhaps
drawing to a close, has made it
possible for the figure of man to
appear. And that appearance was
not the liberation of an old anxi-
ety, the transition into luminous
consciousness of an age-old con-
cern, the entry into objectivity
of something that had long re-
mained trapped within beliefs
and philosophies: it was the
effect of a change in the funda-
mental arrangements of knowl-
edge. As the archeology of our
thought shows, man is an inven-
tion of recent date. And one per-
haps nearing its end."
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man experience, and he places
much emphasis on language, its
objectives and developments. Of
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that retains a memory of that
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ten; because God did not wish
men to forget the punishment in-
flicted at Babel; because this
language had to be used in or-
der to recount God's ancient al-
liance with his people; and last-
ly, because it was in this lan-
guage that God addressed him-
self to those who listened to
him. Hebrew therefore contains,
as if in the form of fragments,
the marks of that original name-
giving.
"And those words pronounced by
Adam as he imposed them upon
the various animals have endured,
in part at least, and still carry
with them in their density, like an
embedded fragment of silent
knowledge, the unchanging prop-
erties of beings:
"Thus the stork, so greatly laud-
ed for its charity towards its father
and its mother, is called in Hebrew
Hasida, which is to say, meek, char-
itable, endowed with pity .. . The
horse is named Sus, thought to be
from the verb Hasas, unless that
verb is rather derived from the
noun, and it signifies to rise up, for
among all four-footed animals the
horse is most proud and brave, as
Job depicts it in 39:29.
"But these are no more than
fragmentary monuments; all other
languages have lost these radical
similitudes, which have been pre-
served in Hebrew only in order to
show that it was once the common
language of God, Adam and the
animals of the newly created
earth." —P.S.
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