The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966) by Michel Foucault argues that each historical era is characterized by an underlying 'episteme'—a structure of knowledge that determines what counts as true—and that 'Man' as a subject is a recent and perhaps vanishing invention.
Introduced the concept of episteme and the archaeology of knowledge; influential in poststructuralism and cultural history.
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