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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... eighteenth - century grammar , of an original language ( langue ) from which all others derive , and of which all others carry within themselves a sometimes decipherable memory ; a theory , in nineteenth - century philology , of a ...
... eighteenth - century grammar , of an original language ( langue ) from which all others derive , and of which all others carry within themselves a sometimes decipherable memory ; a theory , in nineteenth - century philology , of a ...
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... eighteenth centuries ; it is not in order to reconstitute , on the basis of ... century were generally speaking more interested in order than in history ... eighteenth century , many other ideas that do not fit into the rigid framework of ...
... eighteenth centuries ; it is not in order to reconstitute , on the basis of ... century were generally speaking more interested in order than in history ... eighteenth century , many other ideas that do not fit into the rigid framework of ...
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... eighteenth- century medical treatises . But on examining this new discipline , we discovered two things : what made it possible at the time it appeared , what brought about this great change in the economy of concepts , analyses , and ...
... eighteenth- century medical treatises . But on examining this new discipline , we discovered two things : what made it possible at the time it appeared , what brought about this great change in the economy of concepts , analyses , and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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