The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on LanguageMadness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of "things aid" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now. Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutely indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time. |
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... concepts ( genus , species , signs ) are used in different ways ; new concepts ( like that of structure ) appear ; and others ( like that of organism ) are formed later . But what was altered in the seventeenth century , and was to ...
... concepts ( genus , species , signs ) are used in different ways ; new concepts ( like that of structure ) appear ; and others ( like that of organism ) are formed later . But what was altered in the seventeenth century , and was to ...
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... conceptual formation . The description of such a system could not be valid for a direct , im- mediate description of the concepts themselves . My intention is not to carry out an exhaustive observation of them , to establish the ...
... conceptual formation . The description of such a system could not be valid for a direct , im- mediate description of the concepts themselves . My intention is not to carry out an exhaustive observation of them , to establish the ...
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... concepts , however generalized the concepts may be , are not the result , laid down in history and deposited in the depth of collective customs , of operations carried out by individuals ; they do not constitute the bare schema of a ...
... concepts , however generalized the concepts may be , are not the result , laid down in history and deposited in the depth of collective customs , of operations carried out by individuals ; they do not constitute the bare schema of a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
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