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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... established: each has its own peculiar discontinuities and patterns; and as one descends to the deepest levels, the rhythms become broader. Beneath the rapidly changing history of governments, wars, and famines, there emerge other ...
... established: each has its own peculiar discontinuities and patterns; and as one descends to the deepest levels, the rhythms become broader. Beneath the rapidly changing history of governments, wars, and famines, there emerge other ...
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... established? What criteria of periodization should be adopted for each of them? What system of relations (hierarchy, dominance, stratification, univocal determination, circular causality) may be established between them? What series of ...
... established? What criteria of periodization should be adopted for each of them? What system of relations (hierarchy, dominance, stratification, univocal determination, circular causality) may be established between them? What series of ...
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... established , how a single pattern is formed and preserved , how for so many different , successive minds there is a single horizon , what mode of action and what substructure is implied by the interplay of transmissions , resumptions ...
... established , how a single pattern is formed and preserved , how for so many different , successive minds there is a single horizon , what mode of action and what substructure is implied by the interplay of transmissions , resumptions ...
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... both an instrument and an object of research ; because it divides up the field of which it is the effect ; because it enables the historian to individualize different domains but can be established only by comparing those domains.
... both an instrument and an object of research ; because it divides up the field of which it is the effect ; because it enables the historian to individualize different domains but can be established only by comparing those domains.
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Michel Foucault. domains but can be established only by comparing those domains. And because, in the final analysis ... establish a system of homogeneous relations: a network of causality that makes it possible to derive each of them ...
Michel Foucault. domains but can be established only by comparing those domains. And because, in the final analysis ... establish a system of homogeneous relations: a network of causality that makes it possible to derive each of them ...
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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