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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... whole history of thought to the preservation of this rationality , to the maintenance of this teleology , and to the ever necessary return to this foundation . Lastly , more recently , when the researches of psycho- analysis ...
... whole history of thought to the preservation of this rationality , to the maintenance of this teleology , and to the ever necessary return to this foundation . Lastly , more recently , when the researches of psycho- analysis ...
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... whole group of highly complex , interwoven objects ; it was necessary above all to describe the formation of these objects , in order to locate in its specifi- city the whole of psychiatric discourse . In Naissance de la clinique , the ...
... whole group of highly complex , interwoven objects ; it was necessary above all to describe the formation of these objects , in order to locate in its specifi- city the whole of psychiatric discourse . In Naissance de la clinique , the ...
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... whole set of rules in accordance with which its object , its modality , the concepts that it employs , and the strategy of which it is a part , are formed . These rules are never given in a formulation , they ' traverse ' formulations ...
... whole set of rules in accordance with which its object , its modality , the concepts that it employs , and the strategy of which it is a part , are formed . These rules are never given in a formulation , they ' traverse ' formulations ...
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