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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... individual whose name appears on the title page of the book ( we are still faced with the problem of the dialogue , and sentences purporting to express the thoughts of a character ; we are still faced with the problem of texts published ...
... individual whose name appears on the title page of the book ( we are still faced with the problem of the dialogue , and sentences purporting to express the thoughts of a character ; we are still faced with the problem of texts published ...
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... individual subject , nor to some kind of collective consciousness , nor to a transcendental subjectivity ; but that it is described as an anonymous field whose configuration defines the possible position of speaking subjects ...
... individual subject , nor to some kind of collective consciousness , nor to a transcendental subjectivity ; but that it is described as an anonymous field whose configuration defines the possible position of speaking subjects ...
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... individual event to the analysis of long term trends quite so neatly . On the contrary , it seems to me that it is in squeezing the individual event , in directing the resolving power of historical analysis onto official price - lists ...
... individual event to the analysis of long term trends quite so neatly . On the contrary , it seems to me that it is in squeezing the individual event , in directing the resolving power of historical analysis onto official price - lists ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
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