The archaeology of knowledge and the discourse on language

✍ Scribed by Foucault, Michel

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
• Year: 2012;2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 165 KB
• Edition: Vintage books ed
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Madness, 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 methadological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now. Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutey indispensable guide to one of hte most innovative thinkers of our time.;Part I: Introduction -- Part II: The discursive regularities -- The unities of discourse -- Discursive formations -- The formation of objects -- The formation of enunciative modalities -- The formation of concepts -- The formation of strategies -- Remarks and consequences -- Part III: The statement and the archive -- Defining the statement -- The enunciative function -- The description of statements -- Rarity exteriority, accumulation -- The historical a priori and the archive -- Part IV: Archaeological description -- Archaeology and the history of ideas -- The original and the regular -- Contradictions -- The comparative facts -- Change and transformations -- Science and knowledge -- Part V: Conclusion -- Appendix: The discourse on language.