Michel Foucault

The Order of Things

When 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 hist...

The History of Sexuality

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences.

Nietzsche, Genealogy, History

1 . Genealogy i s gray, meticulous, and patiently documentary . It operates on a field of entangled and confused parchments, on d ocuments that have been scratched over and reco...

Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977

"Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions...

The order of things an archaeology of the human sciences

Possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century, it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual g...