Let me also suggest to your view a primary text which will furnish anyone interested in fleshing out the Order of Things in its Historical Being, and that is Thomas Brown's Religio Medici.
I have often complained to myself on many occasions at the lack of the engagement, by the participants in this discussion group, in primary material, the sort of material which furnished Foucaults Ouvour with its substance, and promised to myself to supply some of that lack when the opportunity next presented itself. Well, I have often had the experience, while reading the Order of Things, that Thomas Brown's Religio Medici is one of those texts that lays silently behind it, stands in the background as it were, and informs it obliquely. In other words, I was surprised not to find any reference to Religio Medici in the Order of Things (despite the fact that my copy of Order of Things is missing the Index), when it seemed to epitomise much of what it talks about (i.e., deploys in its positivities), and the fact that it was such a well known little book (throughout the period that Foucaults book staked out as its field of interest) which found as many
readers in Catholic countries as it did in Protestant ones.
Regarded 'astride a low wall'
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