Michel Foucault · Philosophy
In <em>The Order of Things</em>, Foucault argued that each historical age thinks within a hidden underlying order - an <em>episteme</em> - that silently fixes what can count as knowledge. Tracing these deep ruptures, he reached a startling conclusion: ‘Man’ as the object and ground of the human sciences is a recent invention, and one perhaps nearing its end.
You learned that for Foucault, each age has an episteme : an underlying, mostly unconscious order that determines what counts as knowledge in that period. Knowledge does not progress smoothly but is reorganized by deep ruptures between epistemes. He concluded that ‘Man’ is a recent invention of one such or…
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