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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... once to interrogation ; to break them up and then to see whether they can be legitimately reformed ; or whether other groupings should be made ; to replace them in a more general space which , while dissipating their apparent ...
... once to interrogation ; to break them up and then to see whether they can be legitimately reformed ; or whether other groupings should be made ; to replace them in a more general space which , while dissipating their apparent ...
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... once more a number of remarks to be found in the preceding analyses , reply to some of the questions that they inevitably raise , and above all examine the objection that threatens to present itself , for the paradox of the enterprise ...
... once more a number of remarks to be found in the preceding analyses , reply to some of the questions that they inevitably raise , and above all examine the objection that threatens to present itself , for the paradox of the enterprise ...
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... once coherent , and transformable into theoretical models and conceptual instruments . A large part of my indebtedness , however , is to Jean Hyppolite . I know that , for many , his work is associated with that of Hegel , and that our ...
... once coherent , and transformable into theoretical models and conceptual instruments . A large part of my indebtedness , however , is to Jean Hyppolite . I know that , for many , his work is associated with that of Hegel , and that our ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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