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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Page 69
... economic discourse derive from one another , regulate one another , and are involved with one another ( how a point of choice about prices derives from a decision about the concept of value ) ; how the choices made depend on the general ...
... economic discourse derive from one another , regulate one another , and are involved with one another ( how a point of choice about prices derives from a decision about the concept of value ) ; how the choices made depend on the general ...
Page 162
... economic practices and processes ) . These rapprochements are not intended to uncover great cultural continuities , nor to isolate mechanisms of causality . Before a set of enunciative facts , archaeology does not ask what could have ...
... economic practices and processes ) . These rapprochements are not intended to uncover great cultural continuities , nor to isolate mechanisms of causality . Before a set of enunciative facts , archaeology does not ask what could have ...
Page 176
... economy ; it is a discourse that occurred around the derivation of certain economic con- cepts , but which , in turn , defines the conditions in which the discourse of economists takes place , and may therefore be valid as a theory and ...
... economy ; it is a discourse that occurred around the derivation of certain economic con- cepts , but which , in turn , defines the conditions in which the discourse of economists takes place , and may therefore be valid as a theory and ...
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