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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... theory of this pheno- menon ) . There are the architectonic unities of systems of the kind analysed by M. Guéroult , which are concerned not with the description of cultural influences , traditions , and continuities , but with internal ...
... theory of this pheno- menon ) . There are the architectonic unities of systems of the kind analysed by M. Guéroult , which are concerned not with the description of cultural influences , traditions , and continuities , but with internal ...
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... theory , and that this theory cannot be constructed unless the field of the facts of discourse on the basis of which those facts are built up appears in its non - synthetic purity . And I , in turn , will do no more than this : of ...
... theory , and that this theory cannot be constructed unless the field of the facts of discourse on the basis of which those facts are built up appears in its non - synthetic purity . And I , in turn , will do no more than this : of ...
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... theory of attribution , the theory of articulation , the theory of desig- nation , and the theory of derivation ; Natural History and the Analysis of Wealth regroup the first two and the last two , but they link each of them in the ...
... theory of attribution , the theory of articulation , the theory of desig- nation , and the theory of derivation ; Natural History and the Analysis of Wealth regroup the first two and the last two , but they link each of them in the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
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