The Archaeology of Knowledge
And the Discourse on Language
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · September 12, 1982
Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech?
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- Who it’s for
- A challenging, personal inquiry into how knowledge, language, and action shape the way we think.
- Themes
- Knowledge and language, Knowledge, language, and action, Genealogy of contemporary life
- Pacing
- Fast
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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.
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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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A challenging, personal inquiry into how knowledge, language, and action shape the way we think.
Come here for
- Questions about whether familiar ideas are facts or parts of speech
- A close look at the assumptions behind how we live and think
Expect
- A guide to Foucault’s methodological assumptions
- A style described as profound, personal, and at times infuriating
Where it sits
| Post-Structuralism | 68% |
|---|---|
| Social Theory | 41% |
| Philosophy of Language | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Philosophy Writing
- Philosophers & Their Ideas
- Social Theory
- Authors
- Michel Foucault
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- September 12, 1982
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Knowledge and language · Knowledge, language, and action · Genealogy of contemporary life
- Reading lane
- Philosophy Writing