Difficult unraveling of changing epistemes from 16th century to present - the ways in which order (how we in the West make order, recognize order, and express order in terms of meaning and knowledge) changes and with it the meanings we ascribe to experience. ( )

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences by Michel Foucault (1994) ( )

Foucault is a great thinker but a terrible writer. This book is so abstract and obtuse and acute. all that. ( )

Foucault is quite central to our sense of ehre we are, he is carrying out in tehe noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture.