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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... principle of rarefaction , complementary to the first : the author . Not , of course , the author in the sense of the individual who delivered the speech or wrote the text in question , but the author as the unify- ing principle in a ...
... principle of rarefaction , complementary to the first : the author . Not , of course , the author in the sense of the individual who delivered the speech or wrote the text in question , but the author as the unify- ing principle in a ...
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... principle limits this same chance element through the action of an identity whose form is that of individuality and the 1 . But we have to recognise another principle of limitation in what we call , not sciences , but ' disciplines ...
... principle limits this same chance element through the action of an identity whose form is that of individuality and the 1 . But we have to recognise another principle of limitation in what we call , not sciences , but ' disciplines ...
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... principles into play . Next , then , the principle of discontinuity . The existence of systems of rare- faction does not imply that , over and beyond them lie great vistas of limitless discourse , continuous and silent , repressed and ...
... principles into play . Next , then , the principle of discontinuity . The existence of systems of rare- faction does not imply that , over and beyond them lie great vistas of limitless discourse , continuous and silent , repressed and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
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