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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... emerge , and then be designated and analysed . These sur- faces of emergence are not the same for different societies , at different periods , and in different forms of discourse . In the case of nineteenth- century psychopathology ...
... emerge , and then be designated and analysed . These sur- faces of emergence are not the same for different societies , at different periods , and in different forms of discourse . In the case of nineteenth- century psychopathology ...
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... emergence or their mode of characterization ; but the relation between the surfaces on which they appear , on which ... emerge in its own complexity . What , in short , we wish to do is to dispense with ' things ' . To ' depresentify ...
... emergence or their mode of characterization ; but the relation between the surfaces on which they appear , on which ... emerge in its own complexity . What , in short , we wish to do is to dispense with ' things ' . To ' depresentify ...
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... emergent crystallography . This would , in fact , prove that I did not describe , as I claimed to have done , a ... emergence of a quite different system of relations ; and a description would reveal an interdiscursive network that ...
... emergent crystallography . This would , in fact , prove that I did not describe , as I claimed to have done , a ... emergence of a quite different system of relations ; and a description would reveal an interdiscursive network that ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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