Abstract

This paper attempts to examine Foucault's discourse theory of self-discipline and reflect the crux of archeology. Articles from the "historical a priori" the words, and expounds on how Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge will explore the discourse of empirical description and composition of the innate rules of discourse combine to ensure that its form of discourse analysis in the same time, beyond the traditional One of the three pairs of deep philosophical contradictions: "experience - a priori", "I think - not think," "origin of the retreat - return." Around the "statement" of the three properties, we can see that Foucault's efforts in this regard, that when opened up and took away a total experience of the points with a priori to achieve structuralism and positivism of the marriage. This article concludes that the discourse theory of self-crux, that Foucault has not got his wish to escape from the "limited resolution" instead of focusing. The paper is an investigation and critical reflection on Foucault's autonomous discursive theory. It starts from Foucault's key word "historical a priori", and focuses on three qualities of "statement", with a main purpose to explain how his archaeology of knowledge, in order to overcome three pairs of antimony in traditional philosophy, that is, the empirical / the transcendental, the cogito / the unthought, the retreat of origin / the return of origin, combines pure description of discourse with an effort of exploring a priori rules of discursive formation. In its last part, the paper concentrates on problematic aspects of this approach, pointing out that Foucault's effort to sew up three couplets of antinomy is hardly successful, and his ambition to jump out from the predicament of "the analytic of finitude" also fails