ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

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.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 CosequencesPart 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 ArchivePart 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 KnowledgePart V: Conclusion ConclusionIndexSTRONGMichel Foucault (192684)./STRONG Celebrated French thinker and activist who challenged peoples assumptions about care of the mentally ill gay rights prisons the police and welfare.