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The order of things an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
- Standardized Title:
- Mots et les choses. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Learning and scholarship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 387 pages)
- Edition:
- Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Foreword to the English edition
- Preface
- Part I
- 1. Las Meninas
- 2. The prose of the world
- The four similitudes
- Signatures
- The limits of the world
- The writing of things
- The being of language
- 3. Representing
- Don Quixote
- Order
- The representation of the sign
- Duplicated representation
- The image of resemblance
- Mathesis and "taxinomia"
- 4. Speaking
- Criticism and commentary
- General grammar
- The theory of the verb
- Articulation
- Designation
- Derivation
- The quadrilateral of language
- 5. Classifying
- What the historians say
- Natural history
- Structure
- Character
- Continuity and catastrophe
- Monsters and fossils
- The discourse of nature
- 6. Exchanging
- The analysis of wealth
- Money and prices
- Mercantilism
- The pledge and the price
- The creation of value
- Utility
- General table
- Desire and representation
- Part II
- 7. The limits of representation
- The age of history
- The measure of labour
- The organic structure of beings
- Word inflection
- Ideology and criticism
- Objective syntheses
- 8. Labour, life, language
- The new empiricities
- Ricardo
- Cuvier
- Bopp
- Language becomes object
- 9. Man and his doubles
- The return of language
- The place of the king
- The analytic of infinitude
- The empirical and the transcendental
- The "cogito" and the unthought
- The retreat and the return of the origin
- Discourse and man's being
- The anthropological sleep
- 10. The human sciences
- The three faces of knowledge
- The form of the human sciences
- The three models
- History
- Psychoanalysis and ethnology
- In conclusion.
- Notes:
- "A translation of Les mots et les choses'.
- "Reprint of the 1971 ed. published by Pantheon Books, New York, in series: World of man"--T. p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Mots et les choses. English. Order of things.
- ISBN:
- 0307819302
- 9780307819307
- Publisher Number:
- 99989449032
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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