Historische Diskursanalysen

In 1969, Michel Foucault published The Archaeology of Knowledge. In this short text he suggested a new way of dealing with historical documents. Historians, he argued, should no longer ask whether primary sources were telling the ‘truth’ and what they ‘really’ mean. Rather, they should ‘work from within’ the document, ‘arrange it in levels, establish series’ and try to distinguish what is relevant and what is not. Foucault suggested analysing texts as a contribution to statements or ‘enunciations’, establishing their position in a wider formation of statements—for which he reserved the term ‘discourse’. In a series of short reflections, he tried to sketch out some characteristics of discourses, in particular the ‘formation of objects’ which belong to the discourse and are treated according to its rules, the ‘formation of enunciative modalities’ (i.e. who is in a legitimate position to speak about the objects of the discourse), and the ‘formation

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