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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

The archaeology of knowledge ; and, the discourse on language / Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by A.M. Sheridan Smith.

New York : Pantheon Books, ©1972.

245 pages ; 21 cm

Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge- are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of astonishing brilliance, historian Michael 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 said" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. 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.

Learning and scholarship.

Rhetoric.

Reasoning.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Ordre du discours. English.

Archéologie du savoir. English

Archaeology of knowledge

Discourse on language

Translation of two works: L'archéologie du savoir and L'ordre du discours.

Includes index.

Part 1 : introduction -- Part 2 : the discursive regularities -- The unities of discourse -- Discursive formations -- The formations of objects -- The formation of enunciation modalities -- The formation of concepts -- The formation of strategies -- Remarks and consequences -- Part 3 : 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 4 : archaelogy description -- Archaelogy and the history of ideas -- The original and the regular -- Contradictions -- The comparative facts -- Change and transformations -- Science and knowledge -- Part 5 : conclusion.

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