Summary
Michel Foucault: Words and Things: The Archeology of the Humanities
The birthplace of this book is found in a text by Borges. In the laughter that when reading shakes every common opinion - our opinion: the opinion of our age and our latitude - leading to the vacillation of all ordered surfaces and all plans that calm the growth of being for us, for a long time worrying our thousand-year-old practice of Same and Other and leading to its wavering. That text cites "a certain Chinese encyclopedia in which it is written that "animals are divided into: a) those belonging to the Emperor, b) embalmed, c) domesticated, d) mammals, e) mermaids, f) fantastic, g) dogs at large, h) those included in this classification, i) those who are thrown like crazy, j) countless, k) drawn with an extremely fine camel hair brush, 1) et csetera, m) that have just broken a jug, n) that look like flies from afar".
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