Michel Foucault quote: Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ...

Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.

~ Michel Foucault ~

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