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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... object presented as their correlative by medical statements of the seven- teenth or eighteenth century is not identical with the object that emerges in legal sentences or police action ; similarly , all the objects of psycho ...
... object presented as their correlative by medical statements of the seven- teenth or eighteenth century is not identical with the object that emerges in legal sentences or police action ; similarly , all the objects of psycho ...
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... object in the truth of its concept . They do not define its internal con- stitution , but what enables it to appear , to juxtapose itself with other objects , to situate itself in relation to them , to define its difference , its ...
... object in the truth of its concept . They do not define its internal con- stitution , but what enables it to appear , to juxtapose itself with other objects , to situate itself in relation to them , to define its difference , its ...
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... objects may appear and to which such relations may be assigned : it would , for example , be a domain of material objects possessing a certain number of observable physical properties , relations of perceptible size - or , on the ...
... objects may appear and to which such relations may be assigned : it would , for example , be a domain of material objects possessing a certain number of observable physical properties , relations of perceptible size - or , on the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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