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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... whole field of questions , some of which are already familiar , by which this new form of history is trying to develop its own theory : how is one to specify the different concepts that enable us to conceive of discontinuity ( threshold ...
... whole field of questions , some of which are already familiar , by which this new form of history is trying to develop its own theory : how is one to specify the different concepts that enable us to conceive of discontinuity ( threshold ...
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... whole history of thought to the preservation of this rationality , to the maintenance of this teleology , and to the ever necessary return to this foundation . Lastly , more recently , when the researches of psycho - analysis ...
... whole history of thought to the preservation of this rationality , to the maintenance of this teleology , and to the ever necessary return to this foundation . Lastly , more recently , when the researches of psycho - analysis ...
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... whole interplay of differences. One is led therefore to anthropologize Marx, to make of him a historian of totalities, and to rediscover in him the message of humanism; one is led therefore to interpret Nietzsche in the terms of ...
... whole interplay of differences. One is led therefore to anthropologize Marx, to make of him a historian of totalities, and to rediscover in him the message of humanism; one is led therefore to interpret Nietzsche in the terms of ...
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... whole mass of notions, each of which, in its own way, diversifies the theme of continuity. They may not have a very rigorous conceptual structure, but they have a very precise function. Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to ...
... whole mass of notions, each of which, in its own way, diversifies the theme of continuity. They may not have a very rigorous conceptual structure, but they have a very precise function. Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to ...
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... whole cluster of questions ( What are they ? How can they be defined or limited ? What distinct types of laws can they obey ? What articulation are they capable of ? What sub - groups can they give rise to ? What specific phenomena do ...
... whole cluster of questions ( What are they ? How can they be defined or limited ? What distinct types of laws can they obey ? What articulation are they capable of ? What sub - groups can they give rise to ? What specific phenomena do ...
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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