Foucault — The Order of Things
Book page: foucault-order-of-things
From: Quotes batch 6
Edition: Vintage Books (1970 Translation)
On Cognition & Classification
“The fundamental codes of a culture—those governing its language, its schemas of perception… establish for every man, from the very first, the empirical orders with which he will be dealing.” (Preface, p. xx)
On Identity & The Human Condition
“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.” (Chapter 10, p. 387)