Document Type : Promotional

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1 associate professor of sociology, Gilan university, Rasht, Iran

2 PhD student in cultural Sociology, Gilan university, Rasht, Iran

Abstract

The Order of Things: An Archeology of Human Sciences is the fifth and one of the most important works of Michel Foucault. The purpose of this article is to review and criticize the book. The research method in this article is "qualitative content analysis" and gathering information by documentary study . The Order of Things follows the archeological analysis of knowledge and the analysis of episteme, which examines it through the analysis of two important breaks in the episteme of Western culture in the three realms of language, natural sciences and economics.  The book has been criticized both for its descriptive approach and for its  negligence of  causality and for its opposition to the mainstream thought of the time. Although Foucault turned to "genealogy" in his later works, he transformed and modified archeology and did not abandon it. The work was first translated from English to Farsi by Yahya Emami, and then from French by Fateme Valiani. Valiyani is more successful in translating into the target language and is more accurate in translating the equivalents, but some of her  chosen words are not so well established in the Persian language compared to  Emami. In addition to a critical view  of the book, the article also criticizes the form and content of the translation.
 

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