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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Order of Things

by Michel Foucault

Foucault's archaeology of the human sciences, first published in French as Les mots et les choses. Its account of resemblance and signatures as the basis of sixteenth-century knowledge is often cited in studies of correspondences and magic.

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