title: The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
author:  Michel Foucault 
description: Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.
zlib_text: The Order of Things
  ‘The Order of Things sold out within a month after it ﬁrst
  appeared – or so goes the advertising legend. The work num-
  bers among those outward signs of culture the trained eye
  should ﬁnd on prominent display in every private library. Have
  you read it? One’s social and intellectual standing depends on
  the response . . . Foucault is brilliant (a little too brilliant). His
  writing sparkles with incisive formulations. He is amusing.
  Stimulating. Dazzling. His erudition confounds us; his skill
  compels assent; his art seduces.’
  Michel de Certeau
  ‘Foucault’s most important work.’
  Hayden V. White
  ‘One is left with a sense of real and original force.’
  George Steiner
  ‘The Order of Things studies the ways in which people accept
  the taxonomies of an epoch without questioning their arbitrari-
  ness . . . Even scholars who are in a position to scold Foucault
  . . . admit his  brilliant ingenuity and scholarly resource.’
  Frank Kermode
  ‘In The Order of Things, Foucault investigates 