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The Order of Things ?The Order of Things sold out within a month after it first appeared ? or so goes the advertising legend. The work numbers among those outward signs of culture the trained eye should find on prominent display in every private library. Have you read it? One?s social and intellectual standing depends on the response . . . Foucault is brilliant (a little too brilliant). His writing sparkles with incisive formulations. He is amusing. Stimulating. Dazzling. His erudition confounds us; his skill compels assent; his art seduces.? Michel de Certeau ?Foucault?s most important work.? Hayden V. White ?One is left with a sense of real and original force.? George Steiner ?The Order of Things studies the ways in which people accept the taxonomies of an epoch without questioning their arbitrariness . . . Even scholars who are in a position to scold Foucault . . . admit his brilliant ingenuity and scholarly resource.? Frank Kermode ?In The Order of Things, Foucault investigates the modern forms of knowledge (or epistemes) that establish for the sciences their unsurpassable horizons of basic concepts.? J?rgen Habermas Velasquez: Las Meninas, reproduced by courtesy of the Museo del Prado. Michel Foucault The Order of Things An archaeology of the human sciences London and New York Les mots et les choses first published 1966 by Editions Gallimard, Paris English edition first published in the United Kingdom 1970 by Tavistock Publications First published by Routledge 1989 First published in Routledge Classics 2002 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor Francis Group . 1966 Editions Gallimard English translation . 1970 Tavistock/Routledge Foreword to the English edition . 1970 Michel Foucault All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including p