On Foucault’s "Death Of Man" From The Perspective Of épistémè

In the book “The Oder of Things”,Foucault puts forward the term “épistémè”.(?)pistémè is the deep reason for the possibility of knowledge,which limits the possible conditions of knowledge which is in a specific period and culture.It is a silent order about the way of existence of things,a general space of knowledge,a “table” on which things exist and a “chart” in which things are distributed.According to the different épistémè,Foucault divides the western history since the 16 th century into four stages: the Renaissance(16th century),the Classical period(17th and 18 th century),the modern period(from the beginning of 19 th century to Nietzsche)and the contemporary period(after Nietzsche),each of which has its corresponding épistémè.He mainly inspected the first three stages,and thought that “man” did not exist before the modern period,and “man” was constructed in the modern épistémè,that is to say “man” only existed in the modern period.But “man” will soon “disappear”,Nietzsche marks the emergence of a épistémè,in which “man” will no longer exist.Foucault’s “man” is not a living,concrete and real man in reality,but a man who is constructed as a subject of knowledge and appears in knowledge and discipline as an object of knowledge,and the existence mode of "man" thus constructed is determined in three kinds of duality,that is to say,"man" is a limited "man".The result of the birth of "man" is the birth of "Anthropology" philosophy and the birth of human science.Therefore,"the death of man" is a criticism of the subject,the philosophy of Anthropology and the humanities.