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Author Hacking, Ian.

Title Historical ontology / Ian Hacking
Published Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2002

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Description vii, 279 pages ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Historical Ontology -- 2. Five Parables -- 3. Two Kinds of "New Historicism" for Philosophers -- 4. The Archaeology of Michel Foucault -- 5. Michel Foucault's Immature Science -- 6. Making Up People -- 7. Self-Improvement -- 8. How, Why, When, and Where Did Language Go Public? -- 9. Night Thoughts on Philology -- 10. Was There Ever a Radical Mistranslation? -- 11. Language, Truth, and Reason -- 12. "Style" for Historians and Philosophers -- 13. Leibniz and Descartes: Proof and Eternal Truths -- 14. Wittgenstein as Philosophical Psychologist -- 15. Dreams in Place
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Historicism in literature.
Historicism.
History -- Philosophy.
Methodology.
Philosophy.
LC no. 2001051707
ISBN 067400616X
0674016076 (paperback)