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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... . Connaissance refers here to a particular corpus of knowledge , a particular discipline biology or economics , for example . Savoir , which is usually defined as knowledge in general , the totality of connaissances , is used by —
... . Connaissance refers here to a particular corpus of knowledge , a particular discipline biology or economics , for example . Savoir , which is usually defined as knowledge in general , the totality of connaissances , is used by —
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... refers to the conditions that are necessary in a particular period for this or that type of object to be given to connaissance and for this or that enunciation to be formulated.' Throughout this translation I have used the English word ...
... refers to the conditions that are necessary in a particular period for this or that type of object to be given to connaissance and for this or that enunciation to be formulated.' Throughout this translation I have used the English word ...
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... refers to an apparently causal process ( but with neither rigorous delimitation nor theoretical definition ) the phenomena of resemblance or repetition ; which links , at a distance and through time - as if through the mediation of a ...
... refers to an apparently causal process ( but with neither rigorous delimitation nor theoretical definition ) the phenomena of resemblance or repetition ; which links , at a distance and through time - as if through the mediation of a ...
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... refer in the same way to his thèmes ( translation exercises from French into English ) , his translations of Edgar Allan Poe , his poems , and his replies to questionnaires ; similarly , the same relation does not exist between the name ...
... refer in the same way to his thèmes ( translation exercises from French into English ) , his translations of Edgar Allan Poe , his poems , and his replies to questionnaires ; similarly , the same relation does not exist between the name ...
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... referred to the distant presence of the origin, but treated as and when it occurs. These pre-existing forms of continuity, all these syntheses that are accepted without question, must remain in suspense. They must not be rejected ...
... referred to the distant presence of the origin, but treated as and when it occurs. These pre-existing forms of continuity, all these syntheses that are accepted without question, must remain in suspense. They must not be rejected ...
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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