The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on LanguageMadness, 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 methodological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now. Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutely indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time. |
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... belong to those age - old continuities known as grammar or medicine . But what are these unities ? How can we say that the analysis of headaches carried out by Willis or Charcot belong to the same order of discourse ? That Petty's ...
... belong to those age - old continuities known as grammar or medicine . But what are these unities ? How can we say that the analysis of headaches carried out by Willis or Charcot belong to the same order of discourse ? That Petty's ...
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... belong to the domain of scien- tificity of Natural History , but it does belong to its archaeological territory , if at least one can discover in operation in it the same rules of formation as in Linnaeus , Buffon , Daubenton , or ...
... belong to the domain of scien- tificity of Natural History , but it does belong to its archaeological territory , if at least one can discover in operation in it the same rules of formation as in Linnaeus , Buffon , Daubenton , or ...
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... belong to botany or pathology , it must fulfil certain conditions , in a stricter and more complex sense than that of pure and simple truth : at any rate , other conditions . The proposition must refer to a specific range of objects ...
... belong to botany or pathology , it must fulfil certain conditions , in a stricter and more complex sense than that of pure and simple truth : at any rate , other conditions . The proposition must refer to a specific range of objects ...
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