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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... figure , everything that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries might validly constitute a prototype of the ... figures of biology : the analysis of reflex movement ( which was to have so much importance in the constitution of ...
... figure , everything that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries might validly constitute a prototype of the ... figures of biology : the analysis of reflex movement ( which was to have so much importance in the constitution of ...
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... figures , and sciences , a whole set of differences , relations , gaps , shifts , independences , autonomies , and the way in which they articulate their own historicities on one another . The analysis of discursive formations , of ...
... figures , and sciences , a whole set of differences , relations , gaps , shifts , independences , autonomies , and the way in which they articulate their own historicities on one another . The analysis of discursive formations , of ...
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... figures , positivities , and discursive practices , the episteme makes it possible to grasp the set of constraints and limitations which , at a given moment , are imposed on discourse : but this limitation is not the negative limitation ...
... figures , positivities , and discursive practices , the episteme makes it possible to grasp the set of constraints and limitations which , at a given moment , are imposed on discourse : but this limitation is not the negative limitation ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
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