The Archaeology of Knowledge:Michel Foucault
The Archaeology of Knowledge:
by Michel Foucault · first published 1976
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What? Well, given their dismissal of the whole of the humanities, and the ridicule with which they spoke about Foucault, I doubt they're going to be reading The History of Sexuality or The Archaeology of Knowledge anytime soon. Or am I being too defensive, and mis-judging the post? Some 'continental philosophers' are difficult to read. Derrida is a spectacularly bad writer, for instance. Foucault is not one of…
on “The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology (2005) [pdf]” ↗If there was no change, would there be history? Here is Foucault from Archaeology of Knowledge: The notion of discontinuity is a paradoxical one: because it is both an instrument and an object of research; because it divides up the fields of which it is the effect; because it enables the historian…
on “How the US can stop wasting billions of dollars on each transit project” ↗