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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Foucault, Michel

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0679753354
ISBN13: 9780679753353
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 29 1994
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.17 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
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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