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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... philosophy, the history of thought, and the history of literature (we can ignore their specificity for the moment), in those disciplines which, despite their names, evade very largely the work and methods of the historian, attention has ...
... philosophy, the history of thought, and the history of literature (we can ignore their specificity for the moment), in those disciplines which, despite their names, evade very largely the work and methods of the historian, attention has ...
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... philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favour of stable structures. But we must not be taken in by this ...
... philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favour of stable structures. But we must not be taken in by this ...
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... philosophers of history, to the great ages of the world, or to the periodization dictated by the rise and fall of civilizations; it is the effect of the methodologically concerted development of series. In the history of ideas, of ...
... philosophers of history, to the great ages of the world, or to the periodization dictated by the rise and fall of civilizations; it is the effect of the methodologically concerted development of series. In the history of ideas, of ...
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... philosophy of history , and from the questions that it posed ( on the rationality or teleology of historical development ( devenir ) , on the relativity of historical knowledge , and on the possibility of discovering or constituting a ...
... philosophy of history , and from the questions that it posed ( on the rationality or teleology of historical development ( devenir ) , on the relativity of historical knowledge , and on the possibility of discovering or constituting a ...
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... philosophy, and to reduce his genealogy to the level of a search for origins; lastly, one is led to leave to one side, as if it had never arisen, that whole field of methodological problems that the new history is now presenting. For ...
... philosophy, and to reduce his genealogy to the level of a search for origins; lastly, one is led to leave to one side, as if it had never arisen, that whole field of methodological problems that the new history is now presenting. For ...
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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