Jacques Ranciere (2006), in discussing an aesthetics of knowledge, defines disciplinary thought in the following terms:
"Disciplinary thought says: we have our territory, our objects and the methods which correspond to them. This is what sociology or history, political science or literary theory, says. This is also what philosophy, in the regular sense, says, posing itself as a discipline. But at the moment in which it wants to found its status as a discipline of disciplines, it produces this reversal: the foundation of foundation is a story. And philosophy says to those knowledges [savoir] who are certain of their methods: methods are recounted stories. This does not mean that they are null and void. It means that they are weapons in a war; they are not tools which facilitate the examination of a territory but weapons which serve to establish its always uncertain boundary."
References
Ranciere, J., 2006. Thinking between disciplines : an aesthetics of knowledge. Parrhesia, (1), pp.1–12. Available at: http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia01/parrhesia01_ranciere.pdf.