Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

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Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, a translation of Les Mots et les Choses (London: Routledge, 1970).

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This is not directly about visual representations of animals, but it employs the idea of ‘epistemes’ or ‘epistemological spaces’ specific to historical periods, that determined the way in which nature was conceptualised and embodied. DIANA DONALD