Ebook: Foucault's Archaeology: Science and Transformation

The unities of discourse -- Discursive formations -- The formation of objects -- The formation of enunciative modalities -- The formation of concepts -- The formation of strategies -- Remarks and consequences -- Defining the statement -- The enunciative funcion -- The description of statements -- Rarity, exteriority, accumulation -- The historical a priori and the archive -- Archaeology and the history of ideas -- The original and the regular -- Contradictions -- The comparative facts -- Change and transformations -- Science and knowledge.;Puts The Archaeology of Knowledge at the heart of Foucault's thought. David Webb reveals the extent to which Foucault's approach to language in The Archaeology of Knowledge was influenced by the mathematical sciences, adopting a mode of thought indebted to thinkers in the scientific and epistemological traditions. By aligning his thought with the challenge to Kantian philosophy from mathematics and science in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, he shows how Foucault established his own perspective on the future of critical philosophy.