American Foucault scholarship split over whether he abandoned archaeology for genealogy.

Evidence

It is the archaeology-genealogy debate that still exercises readers of Foucault in France as well as in the United States. In the context of the United States, my position would seem to resemble that of Gary Gutting (who says all is archaeology) rather than that held by Dreyfus and Rabinow (who say archaeology was dropped). — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1254

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s tracing of Foucault’s genealogy motif from Society Must Be Defended. — connects to: Foucault’s neoliberalism lectures abandon his own genealogical method — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 90; The political rationality framing extends Foucault beyond what he himself wrote — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 231

Broader Connections