The Order of Things (Routledge Classics): Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Routledge Classics)

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Complex but spectacular - The order of things is complex, and Foucault s writing style fluctuates between the need for re-reading a paragraph at least twice to understand it to whole chapters virtually reading themselves. The central plank of the book is how language, work, and life are preceived through his three epistemes or ages - of before the sixteenth century, c1650-1800 (the classical period), and post-late eighteenth-century. Foucault s episteme sees him set out to find and articulate the perimeter , the outerlimits of the ways people can perceive things at a given time. It is a hard read, as should be expected for a book on the order of all things, but a work of complete genius.

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