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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a book by French philosopher Michel Foucault.
- Michel Foucault
- 1966
Mar 29, 1994 · The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966) is nothing less than a genealogy of ideas, an intellectual ancestry of the Western mind. Along the way, Foucault somehow manages to retrace the entire development of science, restricting his analysis to a specific slice of spacetime: European culture since the 16th century.
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- Michel Foucault
- $15.49
- Vintage
The Order of Things is Foucault at his most Foucauldian, a grand tour through the history of orderings, discourses, scientific methods, and ultimately Man Himself from the 16th century through the 19th century. He's at his best when he's making the incommensurable theological commentaries of the 16th century readable and relateable for modern eyes.
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With...
In his influential book The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher and intellectual historian Michel Foucault (1926–84) paradoxically employed structuralist methods to criticize the scientific pretensions of natural history, linguistics, and political economy—the disciplines known in France as the “human sciences.” But the main ...
The Order of Things. By Michel Foucault Copyright 1970. 448 Pages. by Routledge. Description. When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought.
The Order of Things. When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely...
