"It is no longer a question, in fact, of repeating what had already been said(言下之意,中世纪和文艺复兴时期的释经学是以对已经被言说的事物的“评论”或“重复”), but of defining through what figures and images, by following what order, to what expressive ends, and in order to declare what truth, God or the Prophets had given a discourse the"
"criticism judges it (representation and truth) and profanes it. Now as language in the irruption of its being, and questioning it as to its secret, commentary halts before the precipice of the original text, and assumes the impossible and endless task of repeating its own birth within itself: it sac"
"lastly , the purpose of arousing in the other the representation corresponding to the cry or gesture (but with this particularity, that by emitting a cry, I do not arouse, and do not intend to arouse, the sensation of hunger, but the representation of the relation between this sign and my own desire"
大学时读的译本,现终于给英文版开光。福柯总给人拍脑袋的“疯”芒以莺文文本展开更加逼人。词与物的演变,简单的说就是从一个萝卜一个坑,发展到一个萝卜N个坑,再到萝卜分支成萝卜谱系,此坑关联彼坑并考古深耕思想史中有名的萝卜和深刻的大坑。福柯不想做结构/解构主义者,但是今时今日,福柯的语言游戏是否应验程序猿们的金句: talk is cheap, show me your code? 人文社科如不重逢数理工,就真只剩一片天坑而再无新鲜萝卜了。😳
其实认真读书的话,这本还是挺好的。其中关于tabulation of things,以及后来human subject的empirical-transcendental这个双层面的分析,以及visibility和invisibility之间关系的行程,都很好。
福柯在这本书里面读起来很科学自然史,有些像是库恩,可是又觉得更加深层次上面的paradigmatic。
得再读。
read the english version once, perhaps twice. impressed at the time of reading (early 90s).