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The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault.

By:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Routledge classicsPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: xxvi, 422 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415267366
9780415267366
0415267374
9780415267373

Uniform titles:

Mots et les choses. English

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:

901.9 21
300.1 23

LOC classification:

AZ101 .F6913 2002

Contents:

Pt. I. 1. Las Meninas. 2. The prose of the world. 3. Representing. 4. Speaking. 5. Classifying. 6. Exchanging. -- pt. II. 7. The limits of representation. 8. Labour, life, language. 9. Man and his doubles. 10. The human species.

Summary: When one defines 'order' as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear what Foucault is doing here. He weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology.

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Princeton copy is 2007 printing. NjP.

Includes bibliographical references.

When one defines 'order' as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear what Foucault is doing here. He weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology.

Translated from the French.

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