This book's introduction notes that traditional questions of history, such as cause-and-effect relationships of different events, are being replaced by investigations of hierarchies, and that notions of centuries and periods are being replaced by "rupture and discontinuity.
This book ends with the author responding to a number of criticisms posed by the reader, who represents a structuralist critic. This book uses the term "enunciative modality" to refer to the particular subject-position a speaker is in when making a statement. This book's introduction notes that traditional questions of history, such as cause-and-effect relationships of different events, are being replaced by investigations of hierarchies, and that notions of centuries and periods are being replaced by "rupture and discontinuity." The title (*) method outlined in this book, which involves analyzing systems of thought called "discursive formations" and "epistemes", was employed by the author in several earlier works such as The Order of Things. For 10 points, name this book by Michel Foucault describing his method of intellectual excavation.
This book ends with the author responding to a number of criticisms posed by the reader, who represents a structuralist critic.
The Archaeology of Knowledge [or L'archéologie du savoir]