The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human SciencesWhen one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. with virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things , possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls "exotic charm". Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault. |
Contents
Las Meninas | 3 |
The Prose of the World | 19 |
II Signatures | 28 |
III The Limits of the World | 33 |
IV The Writings of Things | 38 |
V The Being of Language | 46 |
Representing | 51 |
II Order | 55 |
V The Creation of of Value | 206 |
VI Utility | 213 |
VII General Table | 218 |
VIII Desire and Representation | 226 |
The Limits of Representation | 235 |
II The Measure of Labour | 240 |
III The Organic Structure of Beings | 245 |
IV Word Inflection | 252 |
III The Representation of the Sign | 64 |
IV Duplicated Representation | 70 |
V The Imagination of Resemblance | 74 |
VI Mathesis and Taxinomia | 79 |
Speaking | 86 |
II General Grammar | 90 |
III The Theory of the Verb | 101 |
IV Articulation | 106 |
V Designation | 114 |
VI Derivation | 121 |
VII The Quadrilateral of Language | 127 |
Classifying | 136 |
II Natural History | 139 |
III Structure | 144 |
IV Character | 150 |
V Continuity and Catastrophe | 158 |
VI Monsters and Fossils | 164 |
VII The Discourse of Nature | 171 |
Exchanging | 180 |
II Money and Prices | 183 |
III Mercantilism | 189 |
IV The Pledge and the Price | 196 |
V Ideology and Criticism | 257 |
VI Objective Syntheses | 264 |
Labour Life Language | 272 |
II Ricardo | 275 |
III Cuvier | 287 |
IV Bopp | 305 |
V Language Become Object | 321 |
Man and His Doubles | 330 |
II The Place of the King | 335 |
III The Analytic of Finitude | 340 |
IV The Empirical and the Transcendental | 347 |
V The Cogito and the Unthought | 351 |
VI The Retreat and Return of the Origin | 358 |
VII Discourse and Mans Being | 366 |
VIII The Anthropological Sleep | 371 |
The Human Sciences | 375 |
II The Form of the Human Sciences | 380 |
III The Three Models | 387 |
IV History | 400 |
V Psychoanalysis and Ethnology | 407 |
VI In Conclusion | 421 |
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