The Archaeology of Knowledge And the Discourse on Language

by FOUCAULT, MICHEL

• ISBN13: 9780394711065
• ISBN10: 0394711068
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-09-12
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

Foucault's classic methodological statement.

Author Biography

Michel Foucault, one of the leading philosophical thinkers of the 20th century, was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lectured in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Français in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophie at the Faculté des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. His influence on generations of thinkers in the areas of sociology, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical thinking are not to be underestimated. Among his many books were the Foucault Reader, Society Must Be Defended, and Great Ideas.

At the time of his death in June 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the Collège de France. Foucault was the first public figure in France to die from HIV/AIDS.

Table of Contents

PART I INTRODUCTION
Introduction	3	(18)
PART II THE DISCURSIVE REGULARITIES
The unities of discourse	21	(10)
Discursive formations	31	(9)
The formation of objects	40	(10)
The formation of enunciative modalities	50	(6)
The formation of concepts	56	(8)
The formation of strategies	64	(7)
Remarks and consequences	71	(8)
PART III THE STATEMENT AND THE ARCHIVE
Defining the statement	79	(9)
The enunciative function	88	(18)
The description of statements	106	(12)
Rarity, exteriority, accumulation	118	(8)
The historical a priori and the archive	126	(9)
PART IV ARCHAEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION
Archaeology and the history of ideas	135	(6)
The original and the regular	141	(8)
Contradictions	149	(8)
The comparative facts	157	(9)
Change and transformations	166	(12)
Science and knowledge	178	(21)
PART V CONCLUSION
Conclusion	199	(16)
Appendix: The Discourse on Language	215	(24)
Index	239