The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences
By: Foucault, Michel
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BookPublisher: New York, Vintage Books, c1970.Description: xxiv, 387 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780679753353Uniform titles: Mots et les choses. English Subject(s): Learning and scholarshipDDC classification: 901.9
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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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 901.9 FO OR (Browse shelf) | Available | T0053213 |
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| 901 CA WH What is history? / | 901 FU EN The end of history and the last man / | 901 SM DE On deep history and the brain / | 901.9 FO OR The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences | 902 ON ET 1001 days that shaped the world | 903 BR NO The no-nonsense guide to world history / | 903 BR NO The no-nonsense guide to world history / |
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.