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 64
Whatever their formal level may be , I shall call these themes and theories '
strategies ' . The problem is to discover how they are distributed in history . Is it
necessity that links them together , makes them invisible , calls them to their right
places ...
Whatever their formal level may be , I shall call these themes and theories '
strategies ' . The problem is to discover how they are distributed in history . Is it
necessity that links them together , makes them invisible , calls them to their right
places ...
Page 114
I am not proceeding by linear deduction , but rather by concentric circles , moving
sometimes towards the outer and sometimes towards the inner ones : beginning
with the problem of discontinuity in discourse and of the uniqueness of the ...
I am not proceeding by linear deduction , but rather by concentric circles , moving
sometimes towards the outer and sometimes towards the inner ones : beginning
with the problem of discontinuity in discourse and of the uniqueness of the ...
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gson ' s theme of the problem of into Hegel : Marx These five alterations , leading
to the very extremities of Hegelian philosophy , doubtless forcing it to spill over its
own limits , evoke by turns the great figures of modern philosophy Jean ...
gson ' s theme of the problem of into Hegel : Marx These five alterations , leading
to the very extremities of Hegelian philosophy , doubtless forcing it to spill over its
own limits , evoke by turns the great figures of modern philosophy Jean ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 35 |
Copyright | |
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