Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning, in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.


Archaeology of Knowledge (ed. Psychology Press, 2002) - ISBN: 9780415287524

Michel Foucault Quotes

Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at...

Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at...

Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at...

Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at...