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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... deployed space , enunciative events are distributed . -This task presupposes that the field of statements is not described as a ' translation ' of operations or processes that take place elsewhere ( in men's thought , in their ...
... deployed space , enunciative events are distributed . -This task presupposes that the field of statements is not described as a ' translation ' of operations or processes that take place elsewhere ( in men's thought , in their ...
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... deployed . Thus positivity plays the role of what might be called a historical a priori . Juxtaposed these two words ... deployment or rotation - that belongs to it alone , even if it is not entirely unrelated to other types of history ...
... deployed . Thus positivity plays the role of what might be called a historical a priori . Juxtaposed these two words ... deployment or rotation - that belongs to it alone , even if it is not entirely unrelated to other types of history ...
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... deployed , functions or does not function , in a whole field of discursive practices . In short , the question of ideology that is asked of science is not the question of situations or practices that it reflects more or less consciously ...
... deployed , functions or does not function , in a whole field of discursive practices . In short , the question of ideology that is asked of science is not the question of situations or practices that it reflects more or less consciously ...
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