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Review title: Great book, awkward translation
Product review: I love this book, even when I hate it. Foucault's archaeological method really blows a hole in the die-hard myth of historical "progress" by focusing on the epistemological bases of change, steering (or rather veering) away from the teleological narrative that usually passes for history. Mind-bending, really.But what an awful translation. I wish I was a more fluent reader of French; parts of this book read like something I might have translated on a low energy day: idiomatic French rendered literally in English. No wonder people have such a tough time getting through the book. It took me a while before I got the hang of the awkward sentence structures, and by then I felt I had to go back and start reading from the beginning.
