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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... unity of the volume a weak , accessory unity in relation to the discursive unity of which it is the support ? But is this discursive unity itself homogeneous and uniformly applicable ? A novel by Stendhal and a novel by Dostoevsky do ...
... unity of the volume a weak , accessory unity in relation to the discursive unity of which it is the support ? But is this discursive unity itself homogeneous and uniformly applicable ? A novel by Stendhal and a novel by Dostoevsky do ...
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... unity , far from being given immediately , is the result of an operation ; that this operation is interpretative ( since it deciphers , in the text , the transcription of something that it both conceals and manifests ) ; and that the ...
... unity , far from being given immediately , is the result of an operation ; that this operation is interpretative ( since it deciphers , in the text , the transcription of something that it both conceals and manifests ) ; and that the ...
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... unity of the object ' madness ' does not enable one to individualize a group of state- ments , and to establish between them a relation that is both constant and describable . There are two reasons for this . It would certainly be a ...
... unity of the object ' madness ' does not enable one to individualize a group of state- ments , and to establish between them a relation that is both constant and describable . There are two reasons for this . It would certainly be a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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