![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Foucault’s The Order of Things, is a case in point – in that Foucault traces the remarkably similar changes in the underlying categories used to understand economics, biology and linguistics over nearly 400 years and how changes in these categories amounted to revolutions in the way these subjects were understood. I’ve been reading a few books lately that have questioned how the categories we use to divide up the world impact on how we are able to understand the world. I didn’t quite finish the last of the case studies, he did warn it would be long, but I lost the thread and figured I had gotten all I needed from the book by then, anyway. The central idea is both interesting and important – but I think the book isn’t quite sure about who its audience ought to be and this gets in the way. If this book was a couple of hundred pages shorter I would recommend it to just about anyone. ![]()
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