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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... contradiction as best it can . are At the end of this work , only residual contradictions remain - accidents , defects , mistakes - or , on the contrary , as if the entire analysis had been carried out in secrecy and in spite of itself ...
... contradiction as best it can . are At the end of this work , only residual contradictions remain - accidents , defects , mistakes - or , on the contrary , as if the entire analysis had been carried out in secrecy and in spite of itself ...
Page 151
... contradiction that discourse emerges , and it is in order both to translate it and to overcome it that discourse begins to speak ; it is in order to escape that contradiction , whereas contradiction is ceaselessly reborn through ...
... contradiction that discourse emerges , and it is in order both to translate it and to overcome it that discourse begins to speak ; it is in order to escape that contradiction , whereas contradiction is ceaselessly reborn through ...
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... contradiction between ' methodical ' analyses and ' systematic ' analyses . The opposition here is not a terminal one : they are not two contradictory propositions about the same object , they are not two incompatible uses of the same ...
... contradiction between ' methodical ' analyses and ' systematic ' analyses . The opposition here is not a terminal one : they are not two contradictory propositions about the same object , they are not two incompatible uses of the same ...
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