The Order Of Things By Foucault

The main content of the dissertation is Foucault's critical ideas about subjective philosophy in the orders of Things.Foucault thinks that human beings are late incidents.If we consider superficially,although man is the practitioner of talking,living and working,but knowledge based on human beings doesn't belong to the view of introspecting.The dissertation discusses the concept of episteme.In Foucault's view,the history of knowledge can be divided into three periods :Renaissance,Classical and Modern times.In modern episteme,capitalized ordering towards utterly different way.People are more capable of finding the relationships among internal structure as well as internal function that makes the conception of labor,life and language exhibit.Also,this new view creates the essence of labor,the structure of organic and inorganic,the whole factors of language and so on.In order to fulfill the acquisition,the conception of man is experienced in positivism for the first time.This dissertation is divided into three parts: Chapter one outlines the development of rationalist subjective in the western philosophy and the influence of Nietzsche and Heidegger on Foucault's philosophy.Chapter two exhibits Foucault critique of rationalist subject in the order of things.Chapter three summarizes the conclusion of subjective criticism-----“Death of Man”.Foucault considers that human beings haven't existed in the renaissance and classical episteme.He points out that Death of Man will be the inevitable fate.