History of the Concept of Heterotopia
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Shaking the order of things Foucault’s first reference to the concept of heterotopia appeared in 1966 within his preface to Les Mots et les choses, later translated into English as The Order of Things (1970). According to Foucault, the starting point for his book was the reading of a passage by Jorge Luis Borges in which he recounts the baffling classification of animals found in an imaginary Chinese Encyclopaedia. In 1952, Borges, an Argentinean philosopher and writer, published a selection of essays about world literature, maths, metaphysics, religion and language (1975). One essay concerns the ‘analytical language of John Wilkins’ that reminds Borges of a Doctor Franz Kuhn who discovered a Chinese Encyclopaedia entitled ‘Celestial Empire of Benevolent Knowledge’. Foucault quotes a certain classification of animals:
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