Archaeology of Knowledge
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2002
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 256
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 278
- ISBN 13 : 9780415287531
- ISBN 10 : 0415287537
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In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas.
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He is a brilliant writer.
Maurice Cranston
A necessary guide to Foucault's often difficult ideas ... and to his overall historical ambition, which is to define the 'soil' out of which contemporary events in a given period grow.
Times Literary Supplement
Search for a Method and in direct opposition to it, Foucault's work is the most noteworthy effort at a theory of history in the last 50 years.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
Part II: The Discursive Regularities
1. The Unities of Discourse
2. Discursive Formations
3. The Formation of Objects
4. The Formation of Enunciative Modalities
5. The Formation of Concepts
6. The Formation of Strategies
7. Remarks and Cosequences
Part III The Statement and the Archive
8. Defining the Statement
9. The Enunciative Function
10. The Description of Staements
11. Rarity, Exteriority, Accumilation
12. The Historical a priori and the Archive
Part IV Archeological Description
13. Archeology and the History of Ideas
14. The Original and the Regular
15. Contradictions
16. The Comparative Facts
17. Change and Transformations 6. Science and Knowledge
Part V: Conclusion Conclusion
Index
About the Author(s)
Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His engagement with topics such as truth, power and language continues to exert significant influence on a huge range of disciplines, from philosophy, sociology and anthropology to history, politics, law, literature, religion and many others.
Born in Poitiers, France in October 1926, Foucault studied philosophy at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, securing degrees in both philosophy and psychology. He lectured there in philosophy and worked as a psychologist at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne in the early 1950s. His thesis, Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique , was published in 1961 and subsequently published in English as History of Madness by Routledge. It was hailed as "magnificent" by the renowned historian Fernand Braudel and announced the arrival of a major new voice in philosophy. Several other now-famous works followed, including The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things and The Archaeology of Knowledge (all published by Routledge).
Foucault was also a renowned activist, campaigning tirelessly on behalf of homosexuals and for prison reform. He travelled to North America in the 1970s and 1980s to live what he termed "limit experiences" and write the three volumes of his History of Sexuality. Fatally ill with AIDS, Foucault died in Paris on 25 June 1984, at the age of fifty-seven.
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