The order of things; an archaeology of the human sciences.

Main entry:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Title & Author:

The order of things; an archaeology of the human sciences.

Publication:

Description:

xxiv, 387 pages 19 cm

Series:

World of man

Notes:
Translation of Les mots et les choses.
Reprint of the 1971 ed. published by Pantheon Books, New York, in series: World of man.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword to the English edition -- Preface -- Part I -- 1. Las Meninas -- 2. The prose of the world -- The four similitudes -- Signatures -- The limits of the world -- The writing of things -- The being of language -- 3. Representing -- Don Quixote -- Order -- The representation of the sign -- Duplicated representation -- The image of resemblance -- Mathesis and "taxinomia" -- 4. Speaking -- Criticism and commentary -- General grammar -- The theory of the verb -- Articulation -- Designation -- Derivation -- The quadrilateral of language -- 5. Classifying -- What the historians say -- Natural history -- Structure -- Character -- Continuity and catastrophe -- Monsters and fossils -- The discourse of nature -- 6. Exchanging -- The analysis of wealth -- Money and prices -- Mercantilism -- The pledge and the price -- The creation of value -- Utility -- General table -- Desire and representation -- Part II -- 7. The limits of representation -- The age of history -- The measure of labour -- The organic structure of beings -- Word inflection -- Ideology and criticism -- Objective syntheses -- 8. Labour, life, language -- The new empiricities -- Ricardo -- Cuvier -- Bopp -- Language becomes object -- 9. Man and his doubles -- The return of language -- The place of the king -- The analytic of infinitude -- The empirical and the transcendental -- The "cogito" and the unthought -- The retreat and the return of the origin -- Discourse and man's being -- The anthropological sleep -- 10. The human sciences -- The three faces of knowledge -- The form of the human sciences -- The three models -- History -- Psychoanalysis and ethnology -- In conclusion.

ISBN:

0394719352
9780394719351

Subject:

Learning and scholarship.
Savoir et érudition.

Added entries:

World of man (London, England)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109285
Call No.: ID:86-B22030
Status: Available

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