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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... linked to the gesture of writing or to the articulation of speech , and also on the other hand it opens up to itself a residual existence in the field of a memory , or in the materiality of manuscripts , books , or any other form of ...
... linked to the gesture of writing or to the articulation of speech , and also on the other hand it opens up to itself a residual existence in the field of a memory , or in the materiality of manuscripts , books , or any other form of ...
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... linked to the tech- niques of rewriting ; the way in which the field of memory is linked to the forms of hierarchy and subordination that govern the statements of a text ; the way in which the modes of approximation and development of ...
... linked to the tech- niques of rewriting ; the way in which the field of memory is linked to the forms of hierarchy and subordination that govern the statements of a text ; the way in which the modes of approximation and development of ...
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... linked to one another at the sentence level by grammatical ( syntactical or semantic ) links ; which are not linked to one another at the proposition level by logical links ( links of formal coherence or conceptual connexion ) ; and ...
... linked to one another at the sentence level by grammatical ( syntactical or semantic ) links ; which are not linked to one another at the proposition level by logical links ( links of formal coherence or conceptual connexion ) ; and ...
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