🏛️ Digging Beneath "Truth": Understanding Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge
How does our current knowledge act as a "dispositif" (apparatus) to maintain power? Archeology of Knowledge
It treats knowledge as a series of stratified layers, uncovering why certain ideas make sense in one era (e.g., the Renaissance) but not another (e.g., the Modern era). 2. Key Concept: The Episteme the Renaissance) but not another (e.g.
In his 1969 masterpiece, , Michel Foucault turns away from traditional history to examine the hidden structures governing our understanding. 1. What is "Archaeology"? Archeology of Knowledge