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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: engfre Publication details: New York, Vintage Books, c1970.Description: xxiv, 387 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780679753353
Uniform titles:
  • Mots et les choses. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901.9
LOC classification:
  • AZ101 .F6913 1973
Summary: [In this book, the author] cuts across disciplines and reaches back into the seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and saw 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.
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Translation of Les mots et les choses.

Includes bibliographical references.

[In this book, the author] cuts across disciplines and reaches back into the seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and saw 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.

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