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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

by Michel Foucault

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Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries)

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The Great Passage by Shion Miura

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How could he find something to get excited about? Something he could commit to, no holds barred. He had no idea. People like Professor Matsumoto, Araki, and Majime were alien to him. His friends in school had all shied away from getting ...more

Sums up my take on this book, TBH. Lots of people passionate about their work? I'm not sure I'm passionate about anything. (Other than my ever-increasing rage about politics - but that's making me avoid it and throw money at it via charities / organisations that can counter the horrors perpetrated by idiots and charlatans, rather than devote my life to it.)