This book is an important introduction to an end critical interpretation of the work of the major French thinker Michel Foucault.

Preface; Introduction; 1. Bachelard and Canguilhem; 2. Madness and mental illness; 3. Clinical medicine; 4. The order of things: I. from resemblance to representation; 5. The order of things: II. the rise and fall of man; 6. The archaeology of knowledge; 7. Reason and philosophy; Bibliography; Index.