The archaeology of knowledge / Michel Foucault; translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith.
By: Foucault, Michel.
Contributor(s): Sheridan Smith, A. M.
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BookSeries: Routledge classics.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2002Description: vi, 239p. cm.ISBN: 0415287537 (pbk.); 9780415287531; 9780415287524.Uniform titles: Archéologie du savoir. English Subject(s): Knowledge, Sociology of
| Knowledge, Theory of | Power (Social sciences) | Philosophy | Discourse analysis | Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge | Modern philosophy: since c 1800 | Sociology | 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999DDC classification: 194 FOU Summary: The purpose of The Archaeology of Knowledge is to suggest how rhetoric can be studied and understood in its relationship with power and knowledge.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Translation of: Archéologie du savoir.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The purpose of The Archaeology of Knowledge is to suggest how rhetoric can be studied and understood in its relationship with power and knowledge.
Translated from the French.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 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
- 1 Defining the Statement
- 2 The Enunciative Function
- 3 The Description of Staements
- 4 Rarity, Exteriority, Accumilation
- 5 The Historical a priori and the Archive
- Part IV Archeological Description
- 1 Archeology and the History of Ideas
- 2 The Original and the Regular
- 3 Contradictions
- 4 The Comparative Facts
- 5 Change and Transformations
- 6 Science and Knowledge
- Part V Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Michel Foucault was born on October 15, 1926, in Poitiers, France, and was educated at the Sorbonne, in Paris. He taught at colleges all across Europe, including the Universities of Lill, Uppsala, Hamburg, and Warsaw, before returning to France. There he taught at the University of Paris and the College of France, where he served as the chairman of History of Systems of Thought until his death.Regarded as one of the great French thinkers of the twentieth century, Foucault's interest was in the human sciences, areas such as psychiatry, language, literature, and intellectual history. He made significant contributions not just to the fields themselves, but to the way these areas are studied, and is particularly known for his work on the development of twentieth-century attitudes toward knowledge, sexuality, illness, and madness.
Foucault's initial study of these subjects used an archaeological method, which involved sifting through seemingly unrelated scholarly minutia of a certain time period in order to reconstruct, analyze, and classify the age according to the types of knowledge that were possible during that time. This approach was used in Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, for which Foucault received a medal from France's Center of Scientific Research in 1961, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, and The Archaeology of Knowledge.
Foucault also wrote Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison, a study of the ways that society's views of crime and punishment have developed, and The History of Sexuality, which was intended to be a six-volume series. Before he could begin the final two volumes, however, Foucault died of a neurological disorder in 1984.
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