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In Brief

Foucault doesn’t aspire to making a history of progress toward an objectivity recognizable as current science, but rather to examine how the epistemological field established its conditions of possibility.

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:book: The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences | OpenLibrary
By: Michel Foucault
Started: 2025-08-31
Finished: 2026-01-17
Amount read: 387 of 387 pages

387 pages
Genre: theory and book
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Randall, Ryan P. “The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences”. Published May 19, 2025. https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/notes/Reading/Books/foucault-the-order-of-things. Accessed on .