About the book
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.
Editions of The Order of Things
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780394719351
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780679753353
- EBook
- ISBN 9780307819307
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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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What is The Order of Things about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Order of Things?
Philosophy and Religion > Philosophy
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Order of Things?
Michel Foucault
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