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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... concerns the relations that may legitimately be described between the statements that have been left in their provisional , visible grouping . There are statements , for example , that are quite obviously concerned - and have been from ...
... concerns the relations that may legitimately be described between the statements that have been left in their provisional , visible grouping . There are statements , for example , that are quite obviously concerned - and have been from ...
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... concerned with those discursive practices to which the facts of succession must be referred if one is not to establish them in an unsystematic and naïve way , that is in terms of merit . At the level in which they are , the originality ...
... concerned with those discursive practices to which the facts of succession must be referred if one is not to establish them in an unsystematic and naïve way , that is in terms of merit . At the level in which they are , the originality ...
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... concern to establish thresholds , ruptures , and transformations , with the true work of historians , which is to reveal continuities ( when this ceased to be the concern of historians decades ago ) ; and then to reproach it for its ...
... concern to establish thresholds , ruptures , and transformations , with the true work of historians , which is to reveal continuities ( when this ceased to be the concern of historians decades ago ) ; and then to reproach it for its ...
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