Reading Foucault as a Pragmatist. Critical Considerations on the Archaeological and Genealogical Methodology of a Foucauldian Pragmatism and on Its Normative Constitution

The aim of this paper is to analyse and define a certain perspective on Foucault’s pragmatism, from a methodological perspective. The working hypothesis is that Foucault’s pragmatism is based on a methodological dualism, resulted from the synergy of archaeology and genealogy as two traditions of critical inquiry, that are applied to perform problematizations and resolutions of different facts of reality, in terms of “the history of the present”. As a practical research, this article will conclude with the possibilities of deriving both axiological and methodological principles of Foucault’s pragmatism as an autonomous philosophical project, proving its solid normative constitution also by accommodating archaeology and genealogy in order to develop specific operational categories of pragmatism as a critical inquiry, such as “problem”, “solution”, “diagnose”, “position”, “negation”.