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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984-

The Order of Things : an archaeology of the human sciences. / txt - xxiv, 387 p. 19 cm. book

Translation of Les mots et les choses. --
Reprint of the 1971 ed. published by Pantheon Books, New York, in series: World of man. --

Includes bibliographical references.

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 --

ISBN: 9780679753353 0679753354

LCCN: 73005618

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Learning and scholarship
History
Civilization
Civilization
Learning

LC Class. No.: AZ101 / F6913 1973

Dewey Class. No.: 901.9