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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... origin - so secret and so fundamental that it can never be quite grasped in itself . Thus one is led inevitably , through the naïvety of chronologies , towards an ever - receding point that is never itself present in any history ; this ...
... origin - so secret and so fundamental that it can never be quite grasped in itself . Thus one is led inevitably , through the naïvety of chronologies , towards an ever - receding point that is never itself present in any history ; this ...
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... origin and subjectivity . To whomsoever approaches that fortress in which we have taken refuge , and which we are determined to defend and to hold , we repeat , with a gesture that wards off all profanation : ' Noli tangere ' . But I ...
... origin and subjectivity . To whomsoever approaches that fortress in which we have taken refuge , and which we are determined to defend and to hold , we repeat , with a gesture that wards off all profanation : ' Noli tangere ' . But I ...
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... origin , and the necessary recourse to a constituent subject ? But if you claim that you are opening up a radical interrogation , if you wish to place your discourse at the level at which we place ourselves , you know very well that it ...
... origin , and the necessary recourse to a constituent subject ? But if you claim that you are opening up a radical interrogation , if you wish to place your discourse at the level at which we place ourselves , you know very well that it ...
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