...things nor with the verbal forms produced by discourse. It focuses on "a group of rules . . . [that] define not the dumb existence of a reality nor the...use of a vocabulary, but the ordering of objects" (AK, 49). Without denying that discourse is composed of signs or 1 1. In view of this, the title Les...

...of Knowledge, "that in analysing discourses themselves, one sees the loosening of the embrace . . . of words and things, and the emergence of a group of rules proper to discursive practices. These rules define not the dumb existence of a reality, nor the canonical use of a vocabulary,...

...order to disperse them in a network of relationships: "In analysing discourses themselves, one sees the loosening of the embrace, apparently so tight, of words and things." 1 1 It is this aspect of Foucault's strategy that has compelled his writing toward an increasingly...

...discourse at work in the constitution of the field. And if Foucault is right, these rules do not define "the dumb existence of a reality, nor the canonical use of a vocabulary" but, instead, involve "the ordering of objects."91 The greater the historical distance from the "objects"...

...discourse at work in the constitution of the venture. And if Foucault is right, these rules do not define "the dumb existence of a reality, nor the canonical use of a vocabulary . . ." but, instead, involve "the ordering of objects."71 The greater the historical distance from the "objects"...

...extreme nature of Foucault's ontology becomes more evident when he goes on to say of discourse that it is 'the loosening of the embrace, apparently so tight,...of a group of rules proper to discursive practice'. Here, the prime role is played by 'rules [which] define not the dumb existence of reality... but the...

...of discourse (74). In analyzing discourse, says Foucault, "one sees the loosening of the embrace ... of words and things, and the emergence of a group...practice. These rules define not the dumb existence of reality, nor the canonical use of vocabulary, but the ordering of objects" (49). At the same time,...

...that in analysing discourses themselves, one sees the loosening of the embrace, apparently so light, of words and things, and the emergence of a group...use of a vocabulary, but the ordering of objects. 'Words and things' is the entirely serious title of a problem; it is the ironic title of a work that...

...commodious sense and with the articulatory social practice of discourse. As noted by Foucault (1972: 46): These rules define not the dumb existence of a reality, nor the canonical use of vocabulary, but the ordering of objects. 'Words and things' is the entirely serious title of a problem;...

...anti-realism of Foucault's ontology becomes more evident when he goes on to say of discourse that it is 'the loosening of the embrace, apparently so tight,...of a group of rules proper to discursive practice'. Here the prime role is played by 'rules [which] define not the dumb existence of reality ... but the...