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The Order of Things (1966)
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Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought as a fish exists in water; that is, it ceases to breathe anywhere else.
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
Michel Foucault
Born:
October 15, 1926
Died:
June 25, 1984
(aged 57)
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