About the Book: Order of Things
When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully
clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an
intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics
and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant,
yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work
on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established
Foucaults reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge
of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing
the limitations