Round 11: Tossup 10

This thinker’s historical analysis is contextualized as an extension of two earlier thinkers in a 1989 book by Gary Gutting, who wrote the Cambridge Companion and Very Short Introduction to this thinker. A book by this thinker distinguishes between general statements and individual “enunciations.” A book by this thinker claims that the “Classical age” field of natural history has more in common with general grammar than biology as an example of a “great (*) discontinuity.” A method of discourse analysis named for this thinker locates knowledge’s production in “discursive formations.” This thinker further developed a historical method of excavating “epistemes” (10[1])of human sciences in The Archeology of Knowledge. For 10 points, what French thinker used a “forensic analysis” of Las Meninas to open The Order of Things? ■END■

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