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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... linked. To be brief, then, let us say that history, in its traditional form, undertook to 'memorize' the monuments of the past, transform them into documents, and lend speech to those traces which, in themselves, are often not verbal ...
... linked. To be brief, then, let us say that history, in its traditional form, undertook to 'memorize' the monuments of the past, transform them into documents, and lend speech to those traces which, in themselves, are often not verbal ...
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... linked to two or three hypotheses; it is supposed that between all the events of a well-defined spatio- temporal area, between all the phenomena of which traces have been found, it must be possible to establish a system of homogeneous ...
... linked to two or three hypotheses; it is supposed that between all the events of a well-defined spatio- temporal area, between all the phenomena of which traces have been found, it must be possible to establish a system of homogeneous ...
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... linked . Hence the cautious , stumbling manner of this text : at every turn , it stands back , measures up what is before it , gropes towards its limits , stumbles against what it does not mean , and digs pits to mark out its own path ...
... linked . Hence the cautious , stumbling manner of this text : at every turn , it stands back , measures up what is before it , gropes towards its limits , stumbles against what it does not mean , and digs pits to mark out its own path ...
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... linked , but opposite themes . The first involves a wish that it should never be possible to assign , in the order of discourse , the irruption of a real event ; that beyond any apparent beginning , there is always a secret origin so ...
... linked , but opposite themes . The first involves a wish that it should never be possible to assign , in the order of discourse , the irruption of a real event ; that beyond any apparent beginning , there is always a secret origin so ...
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... linked to the gesture of writing or to the articulation of speech, and also on the other hand it opens up to itself a residual existence in the field of a memory, or in the materiality of manuscripts, books, or any other.
... linked to the gesture of writing or to the articulation of speech, and also on the other hand it opens up to itself a residual existence in the field of a memory, or in the materiality of manuscripts, books, or any other.
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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