A ordem do discurso de Michel Foucault: 50 anos de uma obra que revelou o jogo da rarefação dos sujeitos e a microfísica dos discursos

Abstract

This essay celebrates the ve decades of the publication of the book The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault, reflectingon its repercussion among the social sciences and on its uses in the field of language, mainly in the analysis of the French line discourse. Therefore, this is a critical retrospective whose analysis begins with the interview that Foucault granted a few weeksbefore giving this class to Brazilians Sergio Paulo Rouanet and José Guilherme Merquior. Then, the present work makes a briefhistory of Foucault’s entrance to the Collège de France and, finally, deals with the microphysics of the discourse found in thisclass, above all, the subject’s rarefaction, in addition to its uses in the human and social sciences plus the field of language inaround pragmatics and discourse analysis.