The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
of Michel Foucault
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Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrariness of our received truths.In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that “man”—man as a subject of scientific knowledge—is at best a recent invention, the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 416 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date March 29th 1994
- First Publication 10/30/66
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679753353
- Edition Not informed
- Category Religion & Spirituality
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