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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... elements, defines unities, describes relations. The document, then, is no longer for history an inert material through which it tries to reconstitute what men have done or said, the events of which only the trace remains; history is now ...
... elements, defines unities, describes relations. The document, then, is no longer for history an inert material through which it tries to reconstitute what men have done or said, the events of which only the trace remains; history is now ...
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... elements that have to be grouped, made relevant, placed in relation to one another to form totalities. There was a time when archaeology, as a discipline devoted to silent monuments, inert traces, objects without context, and things ...
... elements that have to be grouped, made relevant, placed in relation to one another to form totalities. There was a time when archaeology, as a discipline devoted to silent monuments, inert traces, objects without context, and things ...
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... element in relation to the other elements in the series. The problem now is to constitute series: to define the elements proper to each series, to fix its boundaries, to reveal its own specific type of relations, to formulate its laws ...
... element in relation to the other elements in the series. The problem now is to constitute series: to define the elements proper to each series, to fix its boundaries, to reveal its own specific type of relations, to formulate its laws ...
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... history. It has now become one of the basic elements of historical analysis. Its role is threefold. First, it constitutes a deliberate operation on the part of the historian (and not a quality of the material with which he.
... history. It has now become one of the basic elements of historical analysis. Its role is threefold. First, it constitutes a deliberate operation on the part of the historian (and not a quality of the material with which he.
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... elements may figure simultaneously; in short, not only what series, but also what 'series of series' – or, in other words, what 'tables' it is possible to draw up. A total description draws all phenomena around a single centre – a ...
... elements may figure simultaneously; in short, not only what series, but also what 'series of series' – or, in other words, what 'tables' it is possible to draw up. A total description draws all phenomena around a single centre – a ...
Contents
CHAPTER 2Discursive Formations | |
CHAPTER 3The Formation of Objects | |
CHAPTER 4The Formation of Enunciative Modalities | |
CHAPTER 5The Formation of Concepts | |
CHAPTER 6The Formation of Strategies | |
CHAPTER 5The Historical a priori and the Archive | |
PART IVArchaeological Description | |
CHAPTER 1Archaeology and the History of Ideas | |
CHAPTER 2The Original and the Regular | |
CHAPTER 3Contradictions | |
CHAPTER 4The Comparative Facts | |
CHAPTER 5Change and Transformations | |
CHAPTER 6Science and Knowledge | |
CHAPTER 7Remarks and Consequences | |
PART IIIThe Statement and the Archive | |
CHAPTER 1Defining the Statement | |
CHAPTER 2The Enunciative Function | |
CHAPTER 3The Description of Statements | |
CHAPTER 4Rarity Exteriority Accumulation | |
PART VConclusion | |
Conclusion | |
APPENDIXandINDEX | |
APPENDIXThe Discourse on Language | |
About the Author | |
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