The Archaeology of KnowledgeIn France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas. -- Amazon.com. |
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... concepts ( genus , species , signs ) are used in different ways ; new concepts ( like that of structure ) appear ; and others ( like that of organism ) are formed later . But what was altered in the seventeenth century , and was to ...
... concepts ( genus , species , signs ) are used in different ways ; new concepts ( like that of structure ) appear ; and others ( like that of organism ) are formed later . But what was altered in the seventeenth century , and was to ...
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... concept , but one describes the conceptual network on the basis of the intrinsic regularities of discourse ; one does not subject the multiplicity of statements to the coherence of concepts , and this coherence to the silent ...
... concept , but one describes the conceptual network on the basis of the intrinsic regularities of discourse ; one does not subject the multiplicity of statements to the coherence of concepts , and this coherence to the silent ...
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... concepts , however generalized the concepts may be , are not the result , laid down in history and deposited in the depth of collective customs , of operations carried out by individuals ; they do not constitute the bare schema of a ...
... concepts , however generalized the concepts may be , are not the result , laid down in history and deposited in the depth of collective customs , of operations carried out by individuals ; they do not constitute the bare schema of a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
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