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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... transformation and never cease , in turn , to break with themselves ( in the field of mathematics , M. Serres has ... transformations that serve as new foundations , the rebuilding of foundations . What one is seeing , then , is the ...
... transformation and never cease , in turn , to break with themselves ( in the field of mathematics , M. Serres has ... transformations that serve as new foundations , the rebuilding of foundations . What one is seeing , then , is the ...
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... transformations that constitute ' change ' ; it tries to develop this empty , abstract notion , with a view to according it the analysable status of transformation . It is understandable that some minds are so attached to all those old ...
... transformations that constitute ' change ' ; it tries to develop this empty , abstract notion , with a view to according it the analysable status of transformation . It is understandable that some minds are so attached to all those old ...
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... transformations that bear on the general rules of one or several discursive formations . Thus the French Revolution - since up to now all archaeological analyses have been centred on it - does not play the role of an event exterior to ...
... transformations that bear on the general rules of one or several discursive formations . Thus the French Revolution - since up to now all archaeological analyses have been centred on it - does not play the role of an event exterior to ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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