The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Michel Foucault

416 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrariness of our received truths.In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, ...

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