by Michel Foucault · tapa dura · ISBN 9782070269990
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«L'Archéologie du savoir» is the philosophical essay by Michel Foucault, published by Gallimard in hardcover (275 pages, in French).
Foucault studies the historical rules that make it possible for statements to form bodies of knowledge such as medicine or economics, and proposes an «archaeology» to describe discourse. The work analyzes discursive formations, the statement, the archive and transformations of knowledge, and distinguishes his method from the history of ideas.
The work was originally published in 1969 and is part of Gallimard's Bibliothèque des sciences humaines collection.
For readers interested in twentieth-century French philosophy and in the analysis of discourse and the human sciences.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
