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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... less systematic , less complete , and far less numerous observations , but which sometimes facilitates observa- tions that are more far - reaching in their effects , with a better knowledge of the background and environment ; the ...
... less systematic , less complete , and far less numerous observations , but which sometimes facilitates observa- tions that are more far - reaching in their effects , with a better knowledge of the background and environment ; the ...
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... less charged with determinations , less strongly structured , more omni- present , too , than all these figures ; as if it had fewer features , and ones less difficult to group together ; but as if , by that very fact , it rejected all ...
... less charged with determinations , less strongly structured , more omni- present , too , than all these figures ; as if it had fewer features , and ones less difficult to group together ; but as if , by that very fact , it rejected all ...
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... less regular , from the enunciative point of view , than the text that repeats and diffuses it ; regularity is no less operant , no less effective and active , in a banal as in a unique formation . In such a description one cannot admit ...
... less regular , from the enunciative point of view , than the text that repeats and diffuses it ; regularity is no less operant , no less effective and active , in a banal as in a unique formation . In such a description one cannot admit ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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