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Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Western Culture

Toward a New Science of History

Pamela Major-Poetzl

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/2017
Pages: 294
Subject: Philosophy | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469610184

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The author argues that Foucault's archaeology is an attempt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar to field theory in twentieth-century physics. She examines Foucault's view of the relationship between power and knowledge and goes on to discuss the new concepts of space, time, subject, and causality expressed in relativity theory, quantum mechanics, Saussurean linguistics, and Foucault's literary essays."

Originally published in 1983.

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