The Terms of Order by Robinson Cedric J.; Edwards Erica R.;

Author:Robinson, Cedric J.; Edwards, Erica R.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Despite his nominal antagonism to structuralism,53 there are in the work of Michel Foucault some basic similarities to Levi-Strauss, especially to the later work of Levi-Strauss. This later work proceeds from structuralism as a methodology to a record of the “convertibility” of systems of truth. Foucault, in the context of French “thought” (and we shall discover in a moment why thought must be qualified so as not to suggest in archaeology an exercise in intellectual history), more specifically in the context of what he terms the classical period and the subsequent modern age, has applied an “archaeology” which seeks to identify the cause and dynamic of the “silence” between the modern age and the classical period. That silence is consequent but not attributable to the appearance of Man in human thought. The nature of this silence is the same as that incommensurability of paradigms or language described by Kuhn:

In the transition from one theory to the next words change their meanings or conditions of applicability in subtle ways. Though most of the same signs are used before and after a revolution—e.g., force, mass, element, compound, cell—the ways in which some of them attach to nature has somehow changed. Successive theories are thus, we say, incommensurable….

Why is translation, whether between theories or languages, so difficult? Because, as has often been remarked, languages cut up the world in different ways, and we have no access to a neutral sub-linguistic means of reporting.54

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