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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... operation ; that this operation is interpretative ( since it deciphers , in the text , the transcription of something that it both conceals and manifests ) ; and that the operation that determines the opus , in its unity , and ...
... operation ; that this operation is interpretative ( since it deciphers , in the text , the transcription of something that it both conceals and manifests ) ; and that the operation that determines the opus , in its unity , and ...
Page 95
... operation and the statement in which it is embodied , his future statements and operations ( as an enunciating subject , he accepts this statement as his own law ) . There is a difference however : in the first case , what is stated is ...
... operation and the statement in which it is embodied , his future statements and operations ( as an enunciating subject , he accepts this statement as his own law ) . There is a difference however : in the first case , what is stated is ...
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... operation a whole set of rules in accordance with which its object , its modality , the concepts that it employs , and the strategy of which it is a part , are formed . These rules are never given in a formulation , they ' traverse ...
... operation a whole set of rules in accordance with which its object , its modality , the concepts that it employs , and the strategy of which it is a part , are formed . These rules are never given in a formulation , they ' traverse ...
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