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 48
... things , but by relating them to the body of rules that enable them to form as objects of a discourse and thus constitute the conditions of their historical appearance . To write a history of discursive objects that does not plunge them ...
... things , but by relating them to the body of rules that enable them to form as objects of a discourse and thus constitute the conditions of their historical appearance . To write a history of discursive objects that does not plunge them ...
Page 109
... things , but not like other things . It cannot con- cern only realized verbal performances since it analyses them at the level of their existence : it is a description of things said , precisely as they were said . The analysis of ...
... things , but not like other things . It cannot con- cern only realized verbal performances since it analyses them at the level of their existence : it is a description of things said , precisely as they were said . The analysis of ...
Page 129
... things , said by so many men , for so long , have not emerged in accordance with the same laws of thought , or the same set of circumstances , why they are not simply the signalization , at the level of verbal performances , of what ...
... things , said by so many men , for so long , have not emerged in accordance with the same laws of thought , or the same set of circumstances , why they are not simply the signalization , at the level of verbal performances , of what ...
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