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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2012
ISBN
9780307819307, 0307819302
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2550426 bytes)
Pages
416\0
Time added
2022-08-31 11:52:40

Description

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. 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.

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