Les Mots et les choses

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Les Mots et les choses is a major 1966 philosophical work by Michel Foucault that analyzes the historical conditions shaping the human sciences and systems of knowledge.

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instanceOf book
analyzesDiscipline biology
economics
linguistics
author Michel Foucault NERFINISHED
centralTheme death of man
historical a priori of knowledge
limits of human sciences
countryOfOrigin France
focusesOnPeriod Classical age
Modern age
Renaissance NERFINISHED
follows Naissance de la clinique NERFINISHED
genre epistemology
history of ideas
philosophy
hasEnglishTitle The Order of Things NERFINISHED
hasImpactOn historiography of science
social sciences methodology
influenced critical theory
cultural studies
literary theory
post-structuralism
language French
mainConcept archaeology
episteme
representation of language and things
notableChapter Les suivantes et les semblables
L’homme et ses doubles NERFINISHED
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originalTitle Les Mots et les choses NERFINISHED
partOf Michel Foucault bibliography
philosophicalTradition continental philosophy
precedes L’Archéologie du savoir NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1966
publisher Éditions Gallimard NERFINISHED
subject archaeology of knowledge
classical epistemology
conditions of possibility of knowledge
epistemes
history of knowledge
human sciences
man as an object of knowledge
modern epistemology
representation
structuralism
subtitle Une archéologie des sciences humaines NERFINISHED
translatedAs The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences NERFINISHED
translator Alan Sheridan NERFINISHED

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The Order of Things originalTitle Les Mots et les choses