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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... signs , figures , marks , or traces - whatever their organization or probability may be is enough to constitute a ... signs are juxtaposed - or even , perhaps - when there is a single sign . The threshold of the statement is the ...
... signs , figures , marks , or traces - whatever their organization or probability may be is enough to constitute a ... signs are juxtaposed - or even , perhaps - when there is a single sign . The threshold of the statement is the ...
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... signs defined by their contrasting characteristics and their rules of use ; a language in fact is never given in itself , in its totality ; it could only be so in a secondary way , in the oblique form of a description that would take it ...
... signs defined by their contrasting characteristics and their rules of use ; a language in fact is never given in itself , in its totality ; it could only be so in a secondary way , in the oblique form of a description that would take it ...
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... signs produced on the basis of a natural ( or artificial ) language ( langue ) , we could call formulation the in- dividual ( or possibly collective ) act that reveals , on any material and according to a particular form , that group of ...
... signs produced on the basis of a natural ( or artificial ) language ( langue ) , we could call formulation the in- dividual ( or possibly collective ) act that reveals , on any material and according to a particular form , that group of ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The unities of discourse | 21 |
Discursive formations | 31 |
Copyright | |
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