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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... origin - so secret and so fundamental that it can never be quite grasped in itself . Thus one is led inevitably , through the naïvety of chronologies , towards an ever - receding point that is never itself present in any history ; this ...
... origin - so secret and so fundamental that it can never be quite grasped in itself . Thus one is led inevitably , through the naïvety of chronologies , towards an ever - receding point that is never itself present in any history ; this ...
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... origin , nor a creation by the human being of his own meanings . Language , in its appearance and mode of being , is the statement ; as such , it belongs to a description that is neither trans- cendental nor anthropological . The ...
... origin , nor a creation by the human being of his own meanings . Language , in its appearance and mode of being , is the statement ; as such , it belongs to a description that is neither trans- cendental nor anthropological . The ...
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... origin and subjectivity . To whomsoever approaches that fortress in which we have taken refuge , and which we are determined to defend and to hold , we repeat , with a gesture that wards off all profanation : ' Noli tangere ' . But I ...
... origin and subjectivity . To whomsoever approaches that fortress in which we have taken refuge , and which we are determined to defend and to hold , we repeat , with a gesture that wards off all profanation : ' Noli tangere ' . But I ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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