The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault.

"A translation of Les mots et les choses"

Originally published in French as Les mots et les choses: Paris : Gallimard, 1966. This translation originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1971.

Includes bibliographical references.

Las meninas -- The prose of the world. The four similitudes ; Signatures ; The limits of the world ; The writing of things ; The being of language -- Representing. Don Quixote ; Order ; The representation of the sign ; Duplicated representation ; The imagination of resemblance ; Methesis and 'taxinomia' -- Speaking. Criticism and commentary ; General grammar ; The theory of the verb ; Articulation ; Designation ; Derivation ; The quadrilateral of language -- Classifying. What the historians say ; Natural history ; Structure ; Character ; Continuity and catastrophe ; Monsters and fossils ; The discourse of nature -- Exchanging. The analysis of wealth ; Money and prices ; Mercantilism ; The pledge and the price ; The creation of value ; Utility ; General table ; Desire and representation -- The limits of representation. The age of history ; The measure of labour ; The organic structure of beings ; Word inflection ; Ideology and criticism ; Objective syntheses -- Labour, life, language. The new empiricities ; Ricardo ; Cuvier ; Bopp ; Language become object -- Man and his doubles. The return of language ; The place of the king ; The analytic of finitude ; The empirical and the transcendental ; The 'cogito' and the unthought ; The retreat and return of the origin ; Discourse and man's being ; The anthropological sleep -- The human science. The three faces of knowledge ; The form of the human sciences ; The three models ; History ; Psychoanalysis and ethnology ; In conclusion.