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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... field of history . This field deserves attention , and for two reasons . First , because one can see to what extent it has freed itself from what constituted , not so long ago , the philosophy of history , and from the questions that it ...
... field of history . This field deserves attention , and for two reasons . First , because one can see to what extent it has freed itself from what constituted , not so long ago , the philosophy of history , and from the questions that it ...
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... field of discourse ? ) . We must recognize that they may not , in the last resort , be what they seem at first sight . In short , that they require a theory , and that this theory cannot be constructed unless the field of the facts of ...
... field of discourse ? ) . We must recognize that they may not , in the last resort , be what they seem at first sight . In short , that they require a theory , and that this theory cannot be constructed unless the field of the facts of ...
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... field of presence one may also describe a field of concomitance ( this includes state- ments that concern quite different domains of objects , and belong to quite different domains of objects , and belong to quite different types of dis ...
... field of presence one may also describe a field of concomitance ( this includes state- ments that concern quite different domains of objects , and belong to quite different domains of objects , and belong to quite different types of dis ...
Contents
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 33 |
The formation of objects | 40 |
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