Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason

by Gary Gutting

Book Overview

This is an important introduction to and critical interpretation of the work of the major French thinker, Michel Foucault. Through comprehensive and detailed analyses of such important texts as The History of Madness in the Age of Reason, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, and The Archaeology of Knowledge, the author provides a lucid exposition of Foucault's archaeological approach to the history of thought, a method for uncovering the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521366984
• ISBN13: 9780521366984
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"