Les Mots et les choses
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Les Mots et les choses is a major 1966 philosophical work by Michel Foucault that analyzes the historical conditions shaping the human sciences and systems of knowledge.
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| Les Mots et les choses canonical | 3 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Mots et les choses Context triple: [The Order of Things, originalTitle, Les Mots et les choses]
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Sens et non-sens
Sens et non-sens is a collection of philosophical essays by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that explores themes of perception, art, politics, and meaning within the framework of existential phenomenology.
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B.
L’Esprit Nouveau
L’Esprit Nouveau was an influential early 20th-century avant-garde magazine co-founded by Le Corbusier that promoted modernist ideas in art, architecture, and design.
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C.
Chaise cassée
Chaise cassée is the French title of the monumental Broken Chair sculpture, a giant wooden chair with a broken leg symbolizing opposition to land mines and armed violence, located in Geneva.
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D.
Le Spleen de Paris
Le Spleen de Paris is a collection of prose poems by Charles Baudelaire that explores modern urban life, ennui, and the human psyche in a fragmented, lyrical form.
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E.
Le Bonheur de Vivre
Le Bonheur de Vivre is a seminal 1905–1906 Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse, celebrated for its vibrant colors and idyllic, Arcadian scene of nude figures in a landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Les Mots et les choses Target entity description: Les Mots et les choses is a major 1966 philosophical work by Michel Foucault that analyzes the historical conditions shaping the human sciences and systems of knowledge.
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A.
Sens et non-sens
Sens et non-sens is a collection of philosophical essays by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that explores themes of perception, art, politics, and meaning within the framework of existential phenomenology.
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B.
L’Esprit Nouveau
L’Esprit Nouveau was an influential early 20th-century avant-garde magazine co-founded by Le Corbusier that promoted modernist ideas in art, architecture, and design.
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C.
Chaise cassée
Chaise cassée is the French title of the monumental Broken Chair sculpture, a giant wooden chair with a broken leg symbolizing opposition to land mines and armed violence, located in Geneva.
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D.
Le Spleen de Paris
Le Spleen de Paris is a collection of prose poems by Charles Baudelaire that explores modern urban life, ennui, and the human psyche in a fragmented, lyrical form.
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E.
Le Bonheur de Vivre
Le Bonheur de Vivre is a seminal 1905–1906 Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse, celebrated for its vibrant colors and idyllic, Arcadian scene of nude figures in a landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| analyzesDiscipline |
biology
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economics ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| author | Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
death of man
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historical a priori of knowledge ⓘ limits of human sciences ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| focusesOnPeriod |
Classical age
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Modern age ⓘ Renaissance ⓘ |
| follows | Naissance de la clinique ⓘ |
| genre |
epistemology
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history of ideas ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | The Order of Things ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
historiography of science
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social sciences methodology ⓘ |
| influenced |
critical theory
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cultural studies ⓘ literary theory ⓘ post-structuralism ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| mainConcept |
archaeology
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episteme ⓘ representation of language and things ⓘ |
| notableChapter |
Les suivantes et les semblables
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L’homme et ses doubles ⓘ Représenter ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Les Mots et les choses ⓘ |
| partOf | Michel Foucault bibliography ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | continental philosophy ⓘ |
| precedes | L’Archéologie du savoir ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| publisher | Éditions Gallimard ⓘ |
| subject |
archaeology of knowledge
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classical epistemology ⓘ conditions of possibility of knowledge ⓘ epistemes ⓘ history of knowledge ⓘ human sciences ⓘ man as an object of knowledge ⓘ modern epistemology ⓘ representation ⓘ structuralism ⓘ |
| subtitle |
Une archéologie des sciences humaines
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linked to:
L’Archéologie du savoir
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| translatedAs | The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences ⓘ |
| translator | Alan Sheridan ⓘ |
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