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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... limits , and themes proper to the history of ideas are questioned ; an enter- prise by which one tries to throw off the last anthropological constraints ; an enterprise that wishes , in return , to reveal how these constraints could ...
... limits , and themes proper to the history of ideas are questioned ; an enter- prise by which one tries to throw off the last anthropological constraints ; an enterprise that wishes , in return , to reveal how these constraints could ...
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... limit it , or impose certain forms upon it , or force it , in certain circumstances , to state certain things . They ... limits , it would no doubt have been necessary to discover when the word was first used , to what kind of analysis ...
... limit it , or impose certain forms upon it , or force it , in certain circumstances , to state certain things . They ... limits , it would no doubt have been necessary to discover when the word was first used , to what kind of analysis ...
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... limits , or gaps that divide up their referential , validate only one series of modalities , enclose groups of co- existence , and prevent certain forms of use . But one should not confuse , either in its status or in its effect , the ...
... limits , or gaps that divide up their referential , validate only one series of modalities , enclose groups of co- existence , and prevent certain forms of use . But one should not confuse , either in its status or in its effect , the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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