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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michel FoucaultPublish date:1994-03-29Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679753353ISBN-10:679753354UPC:9780679753353Book Category:Philosophy, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Individual Philosophers, SociologyBook Topic:Modern, Social TheorySize:8.03 x 5.17 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCSG1CQ19H
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679753353ISBN-10:679753354UPC:9780679753353Book Category:Philosophy, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Individual Philosophers, SociologyBook Topic:Modern, Social TheorySize:8.03 x 5.17 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCSG1CQ19H
Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.
Publisher: Vintage

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