Foucault revoluciona a história?

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of an investigation about the relationship between the philosopher Michel Foucault and historiographical French community, particularly the so called Annale’s School. It is a set of convergences and divergences that can be felt even today those historians who somehow appropriating aspects of the work of the French philosopher in support, theoretical or methodological, to his office. Is not it an exegesis of a philosophical work, and even fewer attempts to translate this work into a set of practical recommendations. It is only to point out that characterizes the dispersion and the main points of contact with the historiography in the hope of contributing to a more fruitful debate among historians and philosophers. So, on the one hand, it is noted that the links Foucault himself confesses to the Annale’s School, we point to another difference in intellectual projects that caused a rupture of the other. Now, we are witnessing a new and renewed interest in the work of Foucault in Brazil and abroad, it is useful to consider how this work was in fact close to the actual work of historians.