Michel Foucault

The Order of Things

An Archaeology of Human Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. 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, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that "man"-man as a subject of scientific knowledge-is at best a recent invention, the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 133mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780679753353
• ISBN-10: 0679753354
• Artikelnr.: 22282062

Autorenporträt

Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.

Inhaltsangabe

Publishers Note
Forward to the English Edition
Preface Part I: 1.Las Meninas 2.The Prose of the World: I The Four Similitudes
II Signatures
III The Limits of the World
IV the Writing of Things
V The Being of Language 3.Representing: I Don Quixote
II Order
III The Representation of the Sign
IV Duplicated Representation
V The Imagination of Resemblance
VI Mathesis and 'Taxinoma' 4. Speaking: I Criticism and Commentary
II General Grammar
III The Theory of the Verb
IV Articulation
V Designation
VI Derivation
VII The Quadrilateral Language 5. Classifying: I What the Historians say
II Natural History
III Structure
IV Character
V Continuity and Catastrophe
VI Monsters and Fossils
VII The Discourse of Nature 6. Exchanging: I The Analysis of wealth
II Money and Prices
III Mercantilism
IV The Pledge and the Price
V The Creation of Value
VI Utility
VII General Table
VIII Desire and Representation Part 2 7. The Limits of Representation: I The Age of History
II The Measure of Labour
III The Organic Structure of Beings
IV Word Inflection
V Ideology and Criticism
VI Objective Synthesis 8. Labour
life
Language: I The New Empiricities
II Ricardo
III Cuvier
IV Bopp
V Language Became Object 9. Man and His Doubles: I The return of Language
II The Place of the King
III The Analytic of Finitude
IV The Empirical and the Transcendental
V The 'Cogito' and the Unthought
VI The Retreat and the Return of the Origin
VII Discourse and Man's Being
VIII The Anthropological Sleep 10. The Human Sciences: I The Three Faces of Knowledge
II The Form of the Human Sciences
III The Three Models
IV History
V Psychoanalysis and Ethnology
VI In Conclusion

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Publishers Note, Forward to the English Edition, Preface
Part I:
1.Las Meninas
2.The Prose of the World: I The Four Similitudes, II Signatures, III The Limits of the World, IV the Writing of Things, V The Being of Language
3.Representing: I Don Quixote, II Order, III The Representation of the Sign, IV Duplicated Representation, V The Imagination of Resemblance, VI Mathesis and 'Taxinoma'
4. Speaking: I Criticism and Commentary, II General Grammar, III The Theory of the Verb, IV Articulation, V Designation, VI Derivation, VII The Quadrilateral Language
5. Classifying: I What the Historians say, II Natural History, III Structure, IV Character, V Continuity and Catastrophe, VI Monsters and Fossils, VII The Discourse of Nature
6. Exchanging: I The Analysis of wealth, II Money and Prices, III Mercantilism, IV The Pledge and the Price, V The Creation of Value, VI Utility, VII General Table, VIII Desire and Representation
Part 2
7. The Limits of Representation: I The Age of History, II The Measure of Labour, III The Organic Structure of Beings, IV Word Inflection, V Ideology and Criticism, VI Objective Synthesis
8. Labour, life, Language: I The New Empiricities, II Ricardo, III Cuvier, IV Bopp, V Language Became Object
9. Man and His Doubles: I The return of Language, II The Place of the King, III The Analytic of Finitude, IV The Empirical and the Transcendental, V The 'Cogito' and the Unthought, VI The Retreat and the Return of the Origin, VII Discourse and Man's Being, VIII The Anthropological Sleep
10. The Human Sciences: I The Three Faces of Knowledge, II The Form of the Human Sciences, III The Three Models, IV History, V Psychoanalysis and Ethnology, VI In Conclusion

Rezensionen

'Foucault's most important work.' - Hayden V. White

'One is left with a sense of real and original force' - George Steiner

'The work numbers among those outward signs of culture the trained eye should find on prominent display in every private library. Have you read it? One's social and intellectual standing depends on the response.' - Michel de Certeau

'Foucault's most important work.' - Hayden V. White

'One is left with a sense of real and original force' - George Steiner

'The work numbers among those outward signs of culture the trained eye should find on prominent display in every private library. Have you read it? One's social and intellectual standing depends on the response.' - Michel de Certeau