 | David Thomas - Social Science - 1980 - 228 pages
...reform, a banking custom, a trade practice . . . are all based upon a certain ground of knowledge ... In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always one episteme that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in a theory... | |
 | Gary Gutting - Philosophy - 1989 - 326 pages
...arrangements modified" (OT, 54). There is, moreover, Foucault's frequently cited explicit statement: "In any given culture and at any given moment, there...defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge. . ." (OT, 168). In fact, this same sort of view is present in the definition of an episteme that Foucault... | |
 | Winfried Noth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 600 pages
...which determine the possibility of knowledge epistemological fields or eptstemes (ibid.) and claimed, "In any given culture and at any given moment, there...defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge" (ibid.: 168). To search for a meaning is to bring to light a resemblance. [. . .) There is no difference... | |
 | Gary Tomlinson - History - 1993 - 318 pages
...after all, and later in the book he discounted the possibility of multiple epistemes in a culture: "In any given culture and at any given moment, there...defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge" (p. 168). In his next book, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault was more circumspect. There he cautioned... | |
 | Richard L. Meth, Robert S. Pasick - Psychology - 1991 - 628 pages
...undifferentiated monoliths or abstract totalities, but this qualification must be weighed against his claim that "in any given culture and at any given moment, there...defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge" (1973b: 168, my emphasis). This statement implies that discursive difference and plurality are only... | |
 | Dan Schiller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 296 pages
...Order of Things, published in 1966. "In any given culture and at any given moment," wrote Foucault, "there is always only one episteme that defines the...possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice." The internal cohesion evinced by this epistemic set of... | |
 | Richard King - Religion - 1999 - 298 pages
...38.1. 1991. pp. 80-109. 32 I am using episteme here in a broadly Foucauldian sense to denote that which 'defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge,...whether expressed in a theory or silently invested in practice'. See Michel Foucault, The Order of Things. New York, Pantheon. 1973. p. 168. 33 H. von Stietencron,... | |
 | John Neubauer - Social Science - 274 pages
...les choses (English = The Order of Things) hereafter cited as IMC, 179/168, "In any given culture, at any given moment, there is always only one episteme that defines the possibility of all knowledge"; 89/75 "One must reconstitute the general system of thought whose network,... | |
 | Robert Burden - Modernism (Literature) - 2000 - 392 pages
...prohibitions and values" (AK, 193). More controversiai is Foucault's assertion that, "In any given period ... there is always only one episteme that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge1'.26 For the period from the late nineteenth century he claims that the dominant episteme... | |
 | David K. Naugle - Philosophy - 2002 - 406 pages
...intellectual productions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For example, Foucault writes: "In any given culture and at any given moment, there...knowledge, whether expressed in a theory or silently in a practice."82 For Foucault the edifice of knowledge is a complex structure, and an episteme, which... | |
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Vintage, 1970), p. xi; later in that book a less equivocal definition is given, stating that "in any given culture and at any given moment, there is always one episteme that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in... 
