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 84
... threshold of the statement is the threshold of the existence of signs . Yet even here , things are not so simple , and the meaning of a term like ' the existence of signs ' requires elucidation . What does one mean when one says that ...
... threshold of the statement is the threshold of the existence of signs . Yet even here , things are not so simple , and the meaning of a term like ' the existence of signs ' requires elucidation . What does one mean when one says that ...
Page 89
... threshold of enunciation ; but it does not allow us to define this threshold and the very fact of the statement ) . A series of signs will become a statement on condition that it possesses ' something else ' ( which may be strangely ...
... threshold of enunciation ; but it does not allow us to define this threshold and the very fact of the statement ) . A series of signs will become a statement on condition that it possesses ' something else ' ( which may be strangely ...
Page 188
... threshold of positivity : it almost coincides with the practice and theory of mercantilism ; but its ... thresholds , its own various ruptures , one can describe only a single historical division , which one adopts as a model to be ...
... threshold of positivity : it almost coincides with the practice and theory of mercantilism ; but its ... thresholds , its own various ruptures , one can describe only a single historical division , which one adopts as a model to be ...
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