by Michel Foucault · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679753353
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«The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences» is Michel Foucault's philosophical essay, published by Vintage in paperback, 416 pages.
Foucault analyzes how the knowledge structures of the seventeenth century, based on chains of being and analogies, gave way to modern sciences such as biology, philology and political economy, and how «man» as an object of scientific study is a recent invention that reveals the arbitrariness of many accepted truths.
Work originally published in French in 1966 under the title «Les mots et les choses»; the first English edition appeared in 1970. This English edition from Vintage, in paperback, dates from 1994.
For students and readers interested in philosophy, history of thought and social theory.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
