ABSTRACT
Michael Foucault was born in Poitiers in 1926 and he died of AIDS in 1984 at the age of fifty-seven years. In his short life span Foucault became an emblem for a generation of intellectuals – someone who embodied in his work the most pressing intellectual issues of his time. Foucault had attended both Kojeve's and Hyppolite's lectures on Hegel. In his inaugural lecture at the College de France he named as his closest supports and models, Dumezil, Canguilhem and Hyppolite. The Order of Things proposes an archaeology of the human sciences based upon discovering the laws, regularities and rules of the formation of systems of thought which emerged in the nineteenth century. 'The rule of functional sites' refers to the ways that architects designed space to correspond to the need to supervise and to prevent 'dangerous communication'. Educationalists are only at the beginning of exploring the relevance and promise of Foucault's thought to their own field.
