john w said:

“A highly theoretical books that lays out some interesting positions that Foucault himself later became dissatisfied with. It is in this work that Foucault approaches most closely to the poststructuralist position of needing to "read" and "deconstruct" a text. However, there are differences too. Foucault's main task in this work is to describe what a "discourse" is--and it is interesting to note how close his analysis of discourse often comes to the semiotic idea of the "text" that needs to be "read". Neither discourse nor the semiotic text refer only to written works: on the contrary, anything in our experience that is ordered logically can be regarded as a "text".

An uncompromising but important work.”

posted 23 hours ago