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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... signs by which it is no longer the negative of the historical reading (its underside, its failure, the limit of its power), but the positive element that determines its object and validates its analysis. Third consequence: the theme and ...
... signs by which it is no longer the negative of the historical reading (its underside, its failure, the limit of its power), but the positive element that determines its object and validates its analysis. Third consequence: the theme and ...
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... sign - posting may have given the impression that my analyses were being conducted in terms of cultural totality . It is mortifying that I was unable to avoid these dangers : I console myself with the thought that they were intrinsic to ...
... sign - posting may have given the impression that my analyses were being conducted in terms of cultural totality . It is mortifying that I was unable to avoid these dangers : I console myself with the thought that they were intrinsic to ...
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... signs , the limits of its beginning and its end ; and there is the establishment of an œuvre , which we recognize and delimit by attributing a certain number of texts to an author . And yet as soon as one looks at the matter a little ...
... signs , the limits of its beginning and its end ; and there is the establishment of an œuvre , which we recognize and delimit by attributing a certain number of texts to an author . And yet as soon as one looks at the matter a little ...
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... sign of a proper name . But this designation ( even leaving to one side problems of attribution ) is not a homogeneous function : does the name of an author designate in the same way a text that he has published under his name , a text ...
... sign of a proper name . But this designation ( even leaving to one side problems of attribution ) is not a homogeneous function : does the name of an author designate in the same way a text that he has published under his name , a text ...
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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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