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Foucault Michel the Order of Things by Juan Martin is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Foucault Michel the Order of Things about?

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.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.

Who reads Foucault Michel the Order of Things?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Juan Martin
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Published
1990
Language
EN
ISBN
9780394741550
Category
philosophy
Subjects
History, Sociology, Medical
Rating
4.03 / 5 (12,814 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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