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Michel Foucault · 1966
A foundational work in intellectual history examining how different epochs organize knowledge through implicit systems and epistemes, analyzing the history of biology, linguistics, and political economy from the 17th to 19th centuries. Foucault's influential study reveals the underlying structures that govern what can be known and thought in any given period.
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What this book knows
Knowledge is organized by hidden epistemic grids — epistemes — that determine what thought itself can be in any given era.
mind-and-cognition
between the use of ordering codes and reflections upon order itself, there is the pure experience of order and of its modes of being
OTAH-RC-016Heterotopias are disturbing because they secretly undermine language, shatter common names, destroy syntax in advance
OTAH-RC-012language can spread them before us only in an unthinkable space — we shall never define a stable relation of contained to container
OTAH-RC-011self-and-identity
What historical a priori provided the starting-point from which it was possible to define the great checkerboard of distinct identities?
OTAH-RC-019obedience-and-authority
psychoanalysis and ethnology form a perpetual principle of dissatisfaction, of calling into question, of criticism and contestation
OTAH-RC-438changes should not be attributed to the genius of an individual or a new collective spirit — better to respect their specificity
OTAH-RC-007Illuminates
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