Foucault's Archaeology Science and Transformation

Foucault's Archaeology Science and Transformation

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This book provides a new perspective on Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge by revealing the extent to which its approach to language was influenced by the mathematical sciences. Setting out this background to Foucault's analysis makes The Archaeology of Knowledge both accessible in a...

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Main Author: Webb, David (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2012
Subjects:
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
European Philosophy
Epistemology
Philosophy of Science and Mathematics
Feminist theory
Foucault
Discourse
Gaston Bachelard
Immanuel Kant
Jean Cavaillès
Martin Heidegger
Michel Foucault
Ontology
Serres
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Summary:This book provides a new perspective on Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge by revealing the extent to which its approach to language was influenced by the mathematical sciences. Setting out this background to Foucault's analysis makes The Archaeology of Knowledge both accessible in a new way, and relevant to issues that are at the heart of much contemporary debate over the nature of critical thought and the relation between philosophy and the sciences. This book sheds new light on a crucial period of Foucault's work by highlighting his relation to thinkers such as Cavaillès and Serres. It aims to provide a reading of The Archaeology of Knowledge that puts it at the heart Foucault's thought. Rather than attempting a scientific study of language as such, Foucault is shown to have adopted a mode of thought indebted to thinkers in the scientific and epistemological tradition.
ISBN:edinburgh/9780748624218.001.0001
9780748630387
Access:Open Access

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