The Archaeology of KnowledgeMadness, 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 methadological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now. Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutey indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time. |
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... consciousness that made use of material documents to refresh its memory; history is the work expended on material documentation (books, texts, accounts, registers, acts, buildings, institutions, laws, techniques, objects, customs, etc.)
... consciousness that made use of material documents to refresh its memory; history is the work expended on material documentation (books, texts, accounts, registers, acts, buildings, institutions, laws, techniques, objects, customs, etc.)
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... consciousness, or the teleology of reason, or the evolution of human thought; it has questioned the themes of convergence and culmination; it has doubted the possibility of creating totalities. It has led to the individualization of ...
... consciousness, or the teleology of reason, or the evolution of human thought; it has questioned the themes of convergence and culmination; it has doubted the possibility of creating totalities. It has led to the individualization of ...
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... consciousness . In various forms , this theme has played a constant role since the nineteenth century : to preserve , against all decentrings , the sovereignty of the subject , and the twin figures of anthropology and humanism . Against ...
... consciousness . In various forms , this theme has played a constant role since the nineteenth century : to preserve , against all decentrings , the sovereignty of the subject , and the twin figures of anthropology and humanism . Against ...
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... consciousness. Continuous history is the indispensable correlative of the founding function of the subject: the guarantee that everything that has eluded him may be restored to him; the certainty that time will disperse nothing without ...
... consciousness. Continuous history is the indispensable correlative of the founding function of the subject: the guarantee that everything that has eluded him may be restored to him; the certainty that time will disperse nothing without ...
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... consciousness turned upon itself, trying to grasp itself in its deepest conditions: a history that would be both an act of long, uninterrupted patience and the vivacity of a movement, which, in the end, breaks all bounds. If one is to ...
... consciousness turned upon itself, trying to grasp itself in its deepest conditions: a history that would be both an act of long, uninterrupted patience and the vivacity of a movement, which, in the end, breaks all bounds. If one is to ...
Contents
Discursive formations | |
The formation of objects | |
The formation of enunciative modalities | |
The formation of concepts | |
The formation of strategies | |
Remarks and consequences | |
Rarity exteriority accumulation | |
The historical a priori and the archive | |
Archaeology and the history of ideas | |
The original and the regular | |
Contradictions | |
The comparative facts | |
Change and transformations | |
Science and knowledge | |
Defining the statement | |
The enunciative function | |
The description of statements | |
Conclusion | |
The Discourse on Language | |
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