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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... correlations : there are those that enable one to say , for example , that ideas are never either coloured or colourless , and therefore that the sentence is meaning- less ( and these correlations concern a level of reality in which ...
... correlations : there are those that enable one to say , for example , that ideas are never either coloured or colourless , and therefore that the sentence is meaning- less ( and these correlations concern a level of reality in which ...
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... correlation with ' external ' events . Its task is to show on what condition a correlation can exist between them , and what precisely it consists of ( what are its limits , its form , its code , its law of possibility ) . It does not ...
... correlation with ' external ' events . Its task is to show on what condition a correlation can exist between them , and what precisely it consists of ( what are its limits , its form , its code , its law of possibility ) . It does not ...
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... ( with the scientificity that was proper to it ) to biology ( as a science not of the classification of beings , but of specific correlations of different organisms ) did not take place at the time of 187 SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE.
... ( with the scientificity that was proper to it ) to biology ( as a science not of the classification of beings , but of specific correlations of different organisms ) did not take place at the time of 187 SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE.
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
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