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 56
... succession of con- ceptual systems , each possessing its own organization , and being articu- lated only against the permanence of problems , the continuity of tradition , or the mechanism of influences ? Could a law not be found that ...
... succession of con- ceptual systems , each possessing its own organization , and being articu- lated only against the permanence of problems , the continuity of tradition , or the mechanism of influences ? Could a law not be found that ...
Page 127
... succession , which is not deductible ; in short , it has to take account of the fact that discourse has not only a meaning or a truth , but a history , and a specific history that does not refer it back to the laws of an alien ...
... succession , which is not deductible ; in short , it has to take account of the fact that discourse has not only a meaning or a truth , but a history , and a specific history that does not refer it back to the laws of an alien ...
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... successions : one can find in Beauzée statements that are archaeologically anterior to those to be found in the ... succession of events may , in the same order in which it is presented , become an object of discourse , be recorded ...
... successions : one can find in Beauzée statements that are archaeologically anterior to those to be found in the ... succession of events may , in the same order in which it is presented , become an object of discourse , be recorded ...
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