ny 1993 barnes noble by arrangement with pantheon books (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Dust Jacket Included. black & brown ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ 8th printing. translated from the French by A. M. Sheridan Smith. 245p.+ author bio note. appendix. index. philosophy. psychology. epistemology. literary criticism. general grammar. linguistics. medicine. natural history. science. ~ M. Foucault writes: "What was my aim in writing this book? Did I wish to explain what I had wanted to do in my earlier BOOKS, in which so many things still remained obscure? Not altogether, not exactly. By going a little farther in the same direction, and coming back, as if by a new turn in the spiral, towards the point at which I had set out, I hoped to show the position from which I was speaking; to map the space that makes these investigations, and others that I may never accomplish, possible: in short, to give meaning to the word archaeology, which I had so far left empty. It IS a dangerous word, for it seems to imply traces that have fallen outside time and are now frozen into silence. In fact, it is an attempt to describe discourses. Not books (in relation to their authors), not theories (with their structures and coherence), but those familiar yet enigmatic groups of statements that are known as medicine, political economy, and biology. I would like to show that these unities form a number of autonomous, but not independent, domains, governed by rules, but in perpetual transformation, anonymous and without a subject, but imbuing a great many individual works. And where the history of ideas tried to uncover by deciphering texts, the secret movements of thought (its slow progression, its conflicts and retreats, the obstacles that it has overcome), I would like to reveal in its specificity, the level of 'things said': the condition of their emergence, the forms of their accumulation and connexion, the rules of their transformation, the discontinuities that articulate them. The domain of things said is what is called the archive; the role of archaeology is to analyse that archive." ~Also in this volume is Professor Foucault's inaugural address at the College de France upon his assuming the chair of Professor of History and Systems of Thought.