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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

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Author: Foucault, Michel

Binding: Paperback

ISBN: 9780679753353

Details:

Author: Foucault, Michel

Brand: Vintage

Color: White

Edition: Reissue

Binding: Paperback

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 416

Release Date: 29-03-1994

Part Number: 9780679753353

EAN: 9780679753353

Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English

Description:

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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