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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... transformations that constitute ' change ' ; it tries to develop this empty , abstract notion , with a view to according it the analysable status of transformation . It is understandable that some minds are so attached to all those old ...
... transformations that constitute ' change ' ; it tries to develop this empty , abstract notion , with a view to according it the analysable status of transformation . It is understandable that some minds are so attached to all those old ...
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... transformations does not mean their exact chronological coincidence : each transformation may have its own particular index of temporal ' viscosity ' . Natural History , General Grammar , and the Analysis of Wealth were constituted in ...
... transformations does not mean their exact chronological coincidence : each transformation may have its own particular index of temporal ' viscosity ' . Natural History , General Grammar , and the Analysis of Wealth were constituted in ...
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... transformations that bear on the general rules of one or several discursive formations . Thus the French Revolution - since up to now all archaeological analyses have been centred on it – does not play the role of an event exterior to ...
... transformations that bear on the general rules of one or several discursive formations . Thus the French Revolution - since up to now all archaeological analyses have been centred on it – does not play the role of an event exterior to ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
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