Archaeology of Knowledge

Madness sexuality power knowledge--are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. <p/><i>The Archaeology of Knowledge</i> begins at the level of things aid and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge language and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now. <p/> Challenging at times infuriating it is an absolutely indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time.