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 83
... formulation : each act is embodied in a statement and each statement contains one of those acts . They exist through ... formulation would no longer serve to define the statement , but , on the contrary , the act of formulation would be ...
... formulation : each act is embodied in a statement and each statement contains one of those acts . They exist through ... formulation would no longer serve to define the statement , but , on the contrary , the act of formulation would be ...
Page 98
... formulation and the objective environment is not the same in a conversation and in the account of an experiment . It is against the background of a more general relation be- tween the formulations , against the background of a whole ...
... formulation and the objective environment is not the same in a conversation and in the account of an experiment . It is against the background of a more general relation be- tween the formulations , against the background of a whole ...
Page 107
... formulation the in- dividual ( or possibly collective ) act that reveals , on any material and according to a particular form , that group of signs : the formulation is an event that can always be located by its spatio - temporal ...
... formulation the in- dividual ( or possibly collective ) act that reveals , on any material and according to a particular form , that group of signs : the formulation is an event that can always be located by its spatio - temporal ...
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