The Archaeology of KnowledgeIn France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas. -- Amazon.com. |
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Page 169
... archaeology maps the temporal vectors of derivation . Archaeology does not set out to treat as simultaneous what is given as successive ; it does not try to freeze time and to substitute for its flux of events correlations that outline ...
... archaeology maps the temporal vectors of derivation . Archaeology does not set out to treat as simultaneous what is given as successive ; it does not try to freeze time and to substitute for its flux of events correlations that outline ...
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... archaeology is not to deny such phenomena , nor to try to diminish their importance ; but , on the contrary , to try to describe and measure them : how can such permanences or repetitions , such long sequences or such curves projected ...
... archaeology is not to deny such phenomena , nor to try to diminish their importance ; but , on the contrary , to try to describe and measure them : how can such permanences or repetitions , such long sequences or such curves projected ...
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... archaeology ? Must archaeology be - exclusively - a certain way of questioning the history of the sciences ? In other words , by confirming it- self up to now to the region of scientific discourses , has archaeology been governed by ...
... archaeology ? Must archaeology be - exclusively - a certain way of questioning the history of the sciences ? In other words , by confirming it- self up to now to the region of scientific discourses , has archaeology been governed by ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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