simulo reviewed The Order of Things by Michel Foucault
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3 stars
This book is fascinating – and a demanding read. There are many fascinating ideas, many poetic sentences and many fine-crafted connections. But there is also vague language with much "somehow" and the constant feeling that many assertions are a link to what one read 50 pages earlier and on going back one notes that, indeed, it somehow is, but not fully. Its structuralism gives me motivation to trace the structures, but also shuts off the possibility to take it as a bunch of unusual ideas and read it as some sort of spaced out text and see what happens in my mind (like with "A Thousand Plateaus")
This book is fascinating – and a demanding read. There are many fascinating ideas, many poetic sentences and many fine-crafted connections. But there is also vague language with much "somehow" and the constant feeling that many assertions are a link to what one read 50 pages earlier and on going back one notes that, indeed, it somehow is, but not fully. Its structuralism gives me motivation to trace the structures, but also shuts off the possibility to take it as a bunch of unusual ideas and read it as some sort of spaced out text and see what happens in my mind (like with "A Thousand Plateaus")
