The order of things
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Routledge Classics; Routledge Classics
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9780203996645
Subjects: Learning and scholarship
Description: When one defines ""order"" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; 1 Las Meninas; 2 The Prose of the World; 3 Representing; 4 Speaking; 5 Classifying; 6 Exchanging; 7 The Limits of Representation; 8 Labour, Life, Language; 9 Man and His Doubles; 10 The Human Sciences