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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... in the inertia of the past and in the unfinished totality of the present ) . Secondly , because it intersects at certain points problems that are met with in other — fields in linguistics , ethnology , economics , literary.
... in the inertia of the past and in the unfinished totality of the present ) . Secondly , because it intersects at certain points problems that are met with in other — fields in linguistics , ethnology , economics , literary.
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... linguistics or ethnology ( as is often the case today ) , but they originated in the field of history itself more particularly , in that of economic history and as a result of the questions posed by that discipline ; lastly , in no way ...
... linguistics or ethnology ( as is often the case today ) , but they originated in the field of history itself more particularly , in that of economic history and as a result of the questions posed by that discipline ; lastly , in no way ...
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... linguistics , and ethnology have decentred the subject in relation to the laws of his desire , the forms of his language , the rules of his action , or the games of his mythical or fabulous discourse , when it became clear that man ...
... linguistics , and ethnology have decentred the subject in relation to the laws of his desire , the forms of his language , the rules of his action , or the games of his mythical or fabulous discourse , when it became clear that man ...
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... linguistic system can be established (unless it is constructed artificially) only by using a corpus of statements, or a collection of discursive facts; but we must then define, on the basis of this grouping, which has value as a sample ...
... linguistic system can be established (unless it is constructed artificially) only by using a corpus of statements, or a collection of discursive facts; but we must then define, on the basis of this grouping, which has value as a sample ...
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... linguistic sequences that have been formulated; they may be innumerable, they may, in sheer size, exceed the capacities of recording, memory, or reading: nevertheless they form a finite grouping. The question posed by language analysis ...
... linguistic sequences that have been formulated; they may be innumerable, they may, in sheer size, exceed the capacities of recording, memory, or reading: nevertheless they form a finite grouping. The question posed by language analysis ...
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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