"The mots and the chosen" (English: "Les mots et les chosens")

Japanese: 《Les mots et les choses》(英語表記)Lesmotsetleschoses
"The mots and the chosen" (English: "Les mots et les chosens")

…It is something more than simply condensing the intensity by putting shackles on overflowing power, and probably depends on the state of language in French classicism. In his book Les mots et les choses, philosopher M. Foucault lists the most important choice that characterizes the 17th and 18th centuries, which he calls the "Age of Classicism," as the fact that segmented language has become an independent system of semantic representation, replacing all other signs. Unlike the 16th century, when everything in the universe spoke words alongside segmented language, segmented language came to be thought of as being able to represent everything in place of everything. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Les mots et les choses" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…それは単に溢れる力に桎梏(しつこく)をはめることによって強度が凝縮されたという以上の何物かであり,おそらくフランス古典主義における言語のあり方にかかっていると思われる。 哲学者のM.フーコーはその《言葉と物Les mots et les choses》の中で,彼が〈古典主義の時代〉と呼ぶ17~18世紀を特徴づける最も重要な選択として,分節言語が他のあらゆる表徴(シーニュ)に代わって,意味表象の自立した体系になった事を挙げている。16世紀のように分節言語と並んで森羅万象が言葉を語っていた地平とは異なり,分節言語がすべてに代わって,すべてを表すことができると考えられるようになったのだと。…

※「《Les mots et les choses》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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