FOUCAULT E A LITERATURA (ARQUEOLOGIA DA LOUCURA E ESCRITA LITERÁRIA)

This article intends to show how Michel Foucault is reading the western civilization history of knowledge in his major work Madness and Civilization. During the sixty years, Foucault has always been worried about the meaning through we use to understand ourselves. Researching the rational language, he discovers an astonished way of discourse that hide us ours most basic decisions. He calls it literature. Digging until the most depth and unknown level of our culture, Foucault`s archeology shares since the forward of Madness and Civilization some philosophical notions that, first of all, shall be clarified before any interpretation of his work.