Research Catalog

Title

The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault.

Author

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 1994.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 387 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Mots et les choses. English

Alternative Title

• Mots et les choses.
• Archaeology of the human sciences

Subject

• Learning and scholarship
• Civilization > History
• Civilization
• Aussage
• Diskurs
• Strukturalismus
• Sprachphilosophie
• Wissenssoziologie
• Teoria do conhecimento

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "April 1994."
• "Reprint of the 1971 ed. published by Pantheon Books, New York, in series: World of man"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Las meninas -- The prose of the world: The four similitudes ; Signatures ; The limits of the world ; The writing of things ; The being of language -- Representing: Don Quixote ; Order ; The representation of the sign ; Duplicated representation ; The imagination of resemblance ; Methesis and 'taxinomia' -- Speaking: Criticism and commentary ; General grammar ; The theory of the verb ; Articulation ; Designation ; Derivation ; The quadrilateral of language -- Classifying: What the historians say ; Natural history ; Structure ; Character ; Continuity and catastrophe ; Monsters and fossils ; The discourse of nature -- Exchanging: The analysis of wealth ; Money and prices ; Mercantilism ; The pledge and the price ; The creation of value ; Utility ; General table ; Desire and representation -- The limits of representation: The age of history ; The measure of labour ; The organic structure of beings ; Word inflection ; Ideology and criticism ; Objective syntheses -- Labour, life, language: The new empiricities ; Ricardo ; Cuvier ; Bopp ; Language become object -- Man and his doubles: The return of language ; The place of the king ; The analytic of finitude ; The empirical and the transcendental ; The 'cogito' and the unthought ; The retreat and return of the origin ; Discourse and man's being ; The anthropological sleep -- The human science: The three faces of knowledge ; The form of the human sciences ; The three models ; History ; Psychoanalysis and ethnology ; In conclusion.

ISBN

• 0679753354
• 9780679753353

OCLC

• ocm30805469
• 30805469

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries