The Order of Things (edit title)

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  “Just started it, not sure if I understand it yet ..........”

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  “Don't attempt this unless you are a masochist”

  Jean B wrote this review Sunday, April 12 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  • Rated 3 stars

  “Dense as ever - a real fault of all French po-mo intellectuals - but worth struggling with for his rarified way of looking at the world.
  
  Best digested 'en buffet'.”

  Drew P wrote this review Sunday, April 12 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “Jaede said: 4 stars
  The central claim or principle developed by Foucault in this work is that all periods of history have held certain underlying conditions of truth and those underlying conditions constitute what was (and is) acceptable as scientific discourse (or disciplinary specific discourse).
  
  Foucault's text is a complex discussion of how we construct "knowledge" and what we accept as disciplinary knowledge. According to Foucault, the "truths" that we accept shift and, thus, change the conditions of discourse over time from one period' episteme (the historical a priori that grounds knowledge). To some extent Foucault's work along with Thomas Kuhn's text The Structure of Scientific Revolutions are the basis for theories of the social construction of knowledge and discussion of paradigmatic shifts in not only what but how we know.
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  “i see now why mam sohaila is so brilliant, if she can understand this guy, the rest are kids stuff.”

  Maria M wrote this review Thursday, February 14 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “'The Order of Things' studies the ways in which people accept the taxonomies of an epoch without questioning their arbitrariness...
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  Blizzard_Spirit wrote this review Tuesday, September 11 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No