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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... problem presented by such historical analyses is not how continuities are established , how a single pattern is formed and preserved , how for so many different , successive minds there is a single horizon , what mode of action and what ...
... problem presented by such historical analyses is not how continuities are established , how a single pattern is formed and preserved , how for so many different , successive minds there is a single horizon , what mode of action and what ...
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... problem of discontinuity in discourse and of the uniqueness of the statement ( the central theme ) , I have tried to analyse , on the periphery , certain forms of enigmatic groupings ; but the principles of unification with which I was ...
... problem of discontinuity in discourse and of the uniqueness of the statement ( the central theme ) , I have tried to analyse , on the periphery , certain forms of enigmatic groupings ; but the principles of unification with which I was ...
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... problem is not therefore to ask one- self how and why it was able to emerge and become embodied at this point in time ; it is , from beginning to end , historical - a fragment of history , a unity and discontinuity in history itself ...
... problem is not therefore to ask one- self how and why it was able to emerge and become embodied at this point in time ; it is , from beginning to end , historical - a fragment of history , a unity and discontinuity in history itself ...
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