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the order of things michel foucault's brilliant and highly readable book really puts things in perspective. here's a seemingly opposing and much more sophisticated viewpoint: "in the order of things foucault suggests that modern efforts to close the gap between sign and referent are now wholly moribund, thereby invoking the postmodern insistence upon the contingency of all truth claims. yet such contingency calls even foucault's periodizing assertions into doubt, thereby inviting a potentially endless complication of the assertions themselves. what, then, are the implications of this contingency upon postmodern scholarship?" |
