Ebook {Epub PDF} The Archaeology of Knowledge The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault

Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. The Archaeology of Knowledge. The Archeology of Knowledge is Foucault's attempt, after the fact, to describe theoretically the method he used in his first three books of history (Madness and Civilization,The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things). This is, then, not the presentation of a formal theory built logically from axioms, but a description of a specific kind of approach to history (a . The archaeology of knowledge ; and, The discourse on language Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The archaeology of knowledge ; and, The discourse on language by Foucault, Michel, Publication date Foucault, Michel, Ordre du discours. English Boxid IA CameraUser Interaction Count:

Additional Physical Format: Online version: Foucault, Michel, Archaeology of knowledge. London, Tavistock Publications, (OCoLC) 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. Michel Foucault. The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. New York: Pantheon, APPENDIX THE DISCOURSE ON LANGUAGE reason and folly. From the depths of the Middle Ages, a man was mad if his speech could not be said to form part of the common discourse of men.

I spent most of the time at the BNF working on archival materials related toThe Archaeology of Knowledge. There is a manuscript on philosophical discourse, probably written in , which seems to be an abandoned book project; a complete early draft of what became the book; and substantial fragments of another draft. 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. Archaeology Of Knowledge And The Discourse On Language It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon disciplinary fields from literary studies.