The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault

The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault

"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 of the last 50 years, undermining our deepest assumptions about the nature of change and the object of historical inquiry.... The import of his 'archaeology' is to radically deny the transcendental nature of reason. This is truly a work of great magnitude!"

-MARK POSTER, Library Journal

"[Foucault] provides a methodology of his writings of the past decade and of what he intends in the future. It is implicitly an excursion on the 'end of man, and explicitly an attack on anthro-pologization. The attack is aimed most directly at those who practice the 'history of ideas!

"The Archaeology of Knowledge quite effectively unprops accepted belief in the history of ideas in the notion of men building from their 'interiors' along teleological lines (toward their own promises). That's one point to score for the book, and an important one.

"... What he has written and what he will write should be studied by anyone interested in history, in thought, and in man."

—Los Angeles Times

Details

• Paperback
• Condition: Very good
• ISBN: 0061311901
• Publishing House:  Harper & Row