It argues that knowledge based on resemblance was replaced after the Renaissance by knowledge based on identity and difference.
This work claims that the study of language was placed in a "quadrilateral" with corners of proposition, articulation, designation and derivation, in the chapter "Speaking." It argues that knowledge based on resemblance was replaced after the Renaissance by knowledge based on identity and difference. This book's preface describes its author's laughing response to a fictional Chinese encyclopedia that divides animals into absurd categories like "drawn with a...camelhair brush" in a passage by (*) Borges. It argues that fields such as natural history and general grammar are not ancestors of modern biology and linguistics, because all knowledge is limited to the episteme of its era. It precedes its author's turn towards a "genealogical" approach to history in works like Discipline and Punish. For 10 points, a description of Velasquez's Las Meninas opens what "archeology of the human sciences" by Michel Foucault?
This work claims that the study of language was placed in a "quadrilateral" with corners of proposition, articulation, designation and derivation, in the chapter "Speaking."
The Order of Things [or Les Mots et les choses]