by Michel Foucault · Routledge · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780415267373
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«The Order of Things» is the philosophical essay by Michel Foucault, published by Routledge in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Foucault examines how the West has classified knowledge from the Renaissance to modernity, covering grammar, natural history, and the analysis of wealth. The book shows that each era establishes its own order of knowledge and that the human being, as an object of study, is a recent invention of modern thought.
Second edition of the Routledge Classics collection. The English translation was first published in 1970 (Tavistock); the original French work, Les mots et les choses, dates from 1966.
Reference work for students of philosophy and the human sciences and for those interested in postmodernism and the history of Western thought.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
