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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Page 81
... proposition like ' I am lying ' , which can be true only in relation to an assertion on a lower level . The criteria by which one can define the identity of a proposition , distinguish several of them beneath the unity of a formula ...
... proposition like ' I am lying ' , which can be true only in relation to an assertion on a lower level . The criteria by which one can define the identity of a proposition , distinguish several of them beneath the unity of a formula ...
Page 96
... proposition . - Take a group of words or symbols . In order to decide whether they constitute a grammatical unit like the sentence or a logical unit like the proposition , it is necessary , and enough , to determine the rules according ...
... proposition . - Take a group of words or symbols . In order to decide whether they constitute a grammatical unit like the sentence or a logical unit like the proposition , it is necessary , and enough , to determine the rules according ...
Page 97
... proposition remains a proposition , and it is not recourse to the referent that decides whether or not it is a proposition . The same goes for sen- tences ; in many cases , they can yield their meaning only in relation to the context ...
... proposition remains a proposition , and it is not recourse to the referent that decides whether or not it is a proposition . The same goes for sen- tences ; in many cases , they can yield their meaning only in relation to the context ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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