Archéologie de la vie moderne Foucault, Baudelaire, Proust et la question du présent

In order to grasp its full complexity, this article respects the chaotic complexity of the nebulous work the reader knows as Contre Sainte-Beuve. Using the Foucaldian method of the genealogy, this study focuses on the power which emerges from this original disorder in order to perform the history of it. We shall call this power “the Baudelaire force”. We shall finally be able to insist on the archaeological dimension of Proust’s and Baudelaire’s projects.