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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... , they increase with every transformation and never cease, in turn, to break with themselves (in the field of mathematics, M. Serres has provided the theory of this phenomenon ) . There are the architectonic unities of systems.
... , they increase with every transformation and never cease, in turn, to break with themselves (in the field of mathematics, M. Serres has provided the theory of this phenomenon ) . There are the architectonic unities of systems.
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... theory : how is one to specify the different concepts that enable us to conceive of discontinuity ( threshold , rupture , break , mutation , transformation ) ? By what criteria is one to isolate the unities with which one is dealing ...
... theory : how is one to specify the different concepts that enable us to conceive of discontinuity ( threshold , rupture , break , mutation , transformation ) ? By what criteria is one to isolate the unities with which one is dealing ...
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Michel Foucault. œuvre? What is a theory? What is a concept? What is a text? How is one to diversify the levels at which one may place oneself, each of which possesses its own divisions and form of analysis? What is the legitimate level ...
Michel Foucault. œuvre? What is a theory? What is a concept? What is a text? How is one to diversify the levels at which one may place oneself, each of which possesses its own divisions and form of analysis? What is the legitimate level ...
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... which men retrace their own ideas and their own knowledge , to formulate a general theory of discontinuity , of series , of limits , unities , specific — orders , and differentiated autonomies and dependences . As if Cover.
... which men retrace their own ideas and their own knowledge , to formulate a general theory of discontinuity , of series , of limits , unities , specific — orders , and differentiated autonomies and dependences . As if Cover.
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... theory , to draw general conclusions , and even to derive all the possible implications of these concepts of thresholds , mutations , independent systems , and limited series – in the way in which they had been used in fact by ...
... theory , to draw general conclusions , and even to derive all the possible implications of these concepts of thresholds , mutations , independent systems , and limited series – in the way in which they had been used in fact by ...
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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