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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... philosophy of a founding subject , a philosophy of origi- nating experience or a philosophy of universal mediation , discourse is really only an activity , of writing in the first case , of reading in the second and ex- change in the ...
... philosophy of a founding subject , a philosophy of origi- nating experience or a philosophy of universal mediation , discourse is really only an activity , of writing in the first case , of reading in the second and ex- change in the ...
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... philosophy . For Hyppolite , the relationship with Hegel was the scene of an experiment , of a confrontation in which it was never certain that philosophy would come out on top . He never saw the Hegelian system as a reassuring universe ...
... philosophy . For Hyppolite , the relationship with Hegel was the scene of an experiment , of a confrontation in which it was never certain that philosophy would come out on top . He never saw the Hegelian system as a reassuring universe ...
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... philosophy , doubtless forcing it to spill over its own limits , evoke by turns the great figures of modern philosophy Jean Hyppolite ceaselessly opposed to Hegel : Marx , with his questions of history ; Fichte , and the problem of the ...
... philosophy , doubtless forcing it to spill over its own limits , evoke by turns the great figures of modern philosophy Jean Hyppolite ceaselessly opposed to Hegel : Marx , with his questions of history ; Fichte , and the problem of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
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