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by: Michel Foucault See Larger Image Used Price: $3.21 Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780061319013 ISBN: 0061319015 Label: HarperCollins (paper) Manufacturer: HarperCollins (paper) Publication Date: 1976-01 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Sales Rank: 2398336 Studio: HarperCollins (paper) Related Items: The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason see more Editorial Review: Product Description: 'Next to Sartre's 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.' -- Library Journal Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Obtuse but important Foucault is not a light read - you will spend several hours just trying to interpret this text. His wording is unusual and complicated, and sentences can run on for almost a paragraph. Sometimes you'll just want to tear your hair out. Nonetheless, this book is important. The theories Foucault presents in this book, while nearly impossible to cite correcly, do reappear in many modern texts, especially ones about modern literature or the academy. My suggestion is you read it with the ... Read More Rating: - Foucault on Facts Viewed against the background of Foucault's other books, *The Archaeology of Knowledge* is a curious work. In it, Foucault not only explicates the results of his early books on madness, medicine, and the history of the human sciences: he also offers programmatic statements that link up his methods with the main stream of 20th-century French historical researches. The *episteme* linking seemingly disparate fields of inquiry is here explicitly presented against the background of Ferdinand Braudel's *duree*, ... Read More Rating: - Indispensible Do not be fooled by those who dismiss this as a mere curiousity in Foucault's oeuvre. This difficult work is absolutely essential for understanding his central concept of 'discourse'. All of his works are better understood after a careful reading of this difficult work; this is true even for the later 'geneaological' works. Rating: - Archaeology, the Archean, the Archaic, and the Archive The Conclusion of this book (Chapter V) is perhaps the most interesting. Foucault appears to be corresponding with an undisclosed someone, wether with himself as a self critique, or with a critic. I won't put asside the possibility he is coversing with someone from the Tavistock Inst.; as Tavistock Publications Lim. was the first place of translation for this text. If he had not suceeded, in his archaeology of knowledge, an undermining of structuralism, with the thesis on human discourse, then perhaps it ... Read More Rating: - Another (difficult) chapter in Foucault's oeuvre "Archaeology Of Knowledge" finds Foucault at his barest, trying to build up his own theory. Like others have said, it is fascinating to see how much he tries to encompass and how extremely difficult his own enterprise is. Foucault spends many pages trying to explain to us what he means by "discoursive formation", "object formation", "formation of concepts", etc., and the place where his own theory stands vis-à-vis a so-called "history of ideas". You can learn lots from this book, because, like myself, sometimes ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Subjects Biographies & Memoirs Business & Investing Children's Books Comics & Graphic Novels