Episteme

Episteme

Foucault uses the term episteme to refer to the total set of relations within a particular historical period uniting the discursive practises which generate its epistemologies.

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episteme

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Foucault uses the term episteme to refer to the total set of relations within a particular historical period uniting the discursive practices which generate its epistemologies.

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