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Michel Foucault's archaeology of scientific reason

Title: Michel Foucault's archaeology of scientific reason / Gary Gutting.
Author: Gutting, Gary.
Publication: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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Description

xiii, 306 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

An introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of Michael Foucault.

Series Statement

Modern European philosophy

Uniform Title

Modern European philosophy

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Bachelard and Canguilhem -- Bachelard's philosophy of science -- Reason and science -- Bachelard's model of scientific change -- The epistemological and metaphysical ramifications of Bachelard's model -- Canguilhem's history of science -- Canguilhem's conception of the history of science -- Canguilhem's conception of norms -- Foucault and the Bachelard-Canguilhem network -- Madness and mental illness -- Early writings on mental illness -- Madness in the Classical Age -- Mental illness and the asylum -- The voice of madness -- The history of madness: methods and results -- Clinical medicine -- Classical medicine -- A new medical consciousness -- The clinic as an institution -- The linguistic structure of medical signs -- The probabilistic structure of medical cases -- Seeing and saying -- Anatomo-clinical medicine -- The birth of the clinic: methods and results -- The order of things: I. From resemblance to representation -- The Renaissance episteme -- Classical order -- Classical signs and language -- Classical knowledge -- General grammar -- Natural history -- Analysis of wealth -- The common structure of the Classical domains -- Critical reactions -- The order of things: II. The rise and fall of man -- The modern episteme -- Philosophy -- Modern empirical sciences -- Language and modern thought -- Man and the analytic of finitude -- The human sciences -- The order of things: methods and results -- The archaeology of knowledge -- The elements of archaeology -- Statements -- Archaeology and the history of ideas.

ISBN

0521366984
9780521366984
0521366194
9780521366199

LCCN

88031881

OCLC

ocm18682010
18682010
SCSB-1888603

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library