The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
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.
Read more
The Archaeology of Knowledgebegins 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.
Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutely indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time.
Liked The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Shares philosophy, theory, nonfiction -
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures Shares philosophy, theory, nonfiction -
Simulacra and Simulation Shares philosophy, theory, nonfiction -
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Shares philosophy, theory, nonfiction
