Archaeology of Knowledge by Foucault Michel, First Edition (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover. Front endpaper clipped at top corner. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked . Very neat -- a sound copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Translated from the French by A. M. Sheridan Smith. Slight toning to jacket flaps. In Brodart archival wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. A groundbreaking work in philosophy. With the '1' in a number line. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A clean copy of the First American Edition in a bright and attractive jacket with some mild staining, clear tape reinforcement to the blank rear side. ; World Of Man; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 pages.

vi+218pp. 8vo. Original cloth in somewhat worn dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition in English. Scarce and important.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. First American Edition. [10], 3-245 pp. 8vo, red cloth, silver gilt spine lettering, black stamped ribbon image to front cover, deckled fore and tail edges. Some faint foxing, very clean and sharp otherwise, binding tight. DJ clipped, clean and uncommonly bright otherwise, now wrapped in mylar. From R. D. Laing's World of Man series.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. 8vo. [8], 3-245, [3] pp. Red cloth with a black decoration on the front board, silver lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill Allen. Part of The World of Man series, edited by R.D. Laing. Translated from the French into English by A.M. Sheridan Smith. A systematic analysis of the history of ideas: Foucault later uses the methodology he outlines in this work to research the history of medicine and cognition. A small slit to the rear fold, else a gorgeous copy.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Half-title + TP + half-title + [9]-28 = Introduction + [29] = half-title + [31]-101 + [103] = half-title + [105]-173 + [175] = half-title + [177] -255 + [257] = half-title + [259]-275 + [277]-[279] = Table of Contents + [281] = Author's works + [283] = Publisher's advertisements + [285] = Printer's information + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition, First Issue.The Prtinter's information page noting a print date of "13 Mars 1969" - the first printing of this important work.In this book, Foucault explicates his philosophical method which, after having a seismic impact on the philosophical landscape of the 1960s, remains one of the foremost methodologies in critical theory today. Here, Foucault argues that one can understand intellectual history as having two central aspects: the data itself, and what makes this data meaningful. One can begin to see how an archaeological approach can be used as a useful metaphor: on the one hand, one finds an artifact, and, on the other hand, one finds a specific context that makes this artifact meaningful. This, Foucault argues, is how a researcher in the history of ideas might be able to understand their work and the wider significance of it. Going beyond this, Foucault elevates this basic principle into an elaborate philosophy of language, one that examines utterances and propositions as though they were the artifact, and the socio-lingusitic culture as though they were the artifact's location. All in all, this work presents not just the content of Foucault's rigorous study of the history of ideas, it also explains the structure of his research and the philosophy latent to methodology. In original publisher's white card cover with green and maroon text to front, spine, and back. Light wear to top of text and corners of spine, and light sunning to sine and back cover. With previous owner's dated signature ("??? Muller Mar 31, 1969 Paris") to top right corner of front leaf. Otherwise, this is an absolutely lovely, clean, tight and bright copy of this important and illuminating work. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.