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 162
... medicine , whose establishment at the end of the eighteenth century is contemporary with a number of political events , economic phenomena , and institutional changes . Between these facts and the organization of hospital medicine , it ...
... medicine , whose establishment at the end of the eighteenth century is contemporary with a number of political events , economic phenomena , and institutional changes . Between these facts and the organization of hospital medicine , it ...
Page 170
... medicine : in a quarter of a century , from 1790 to 1815 , medical discourse changed more profoundly than since the seventeenth century , probably than since the Middle Ages , and perhaps even since Greek medicine : a change that ...
... medicine : in a quarter of a century , from 1790 to 1815 , medical discourse changed more profoundly than since the seventeenth century , probably than since the Middle Ages , and perhaps even since Greek medicine : a change that ...
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... Medicine does not consist of all that may be truly said about disease ; botany cannot be defined by the sum total of the truths one could say about plants . There are two reasons for this , the first being that botany and medicine ...
... Medicine does not consist of all that may be truly said about disease ; botany cannot be defined by the sum total of the truths one could say about plants . There are two reasons for this , the first being that botany and medicine ...
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