Quotes by Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

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This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the fam — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense e — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not ye — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... ha — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask themselves — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibi — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences