Foucault overlooked premodern European structures that caused the founders of discursivity

Evidence

What is equally interesting and important for our concerns are the origins of the “founders of discursivity,” namely, why and how they arose in the first place. Foucault spoke of their ontological modalities of the way they operated and the truth regimes they generated or partly were born into; but I think he overlooked, to put it mildly, the historical causes (that is, premodern structures) within Europe that precipitated such a change. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 90

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Forge and the Other: How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self”; the MOC “The Word Is a Fence: Language as Battleground, Property, and Partition”