The Order of Things
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What’s it about?
An archaeology of knowledge that reveals how the hidden rules of thought shift across history, showing that our deepest certainties about language, life, and humanity are fragile, recent inventions.
You’ll learn
- Knowledge rests on invisible, shifting foundations
- The modern idea of 'man' is a recent invention
- History is shaped by sudden ruptures, not progress
- Our categories of thought are not eternal truths