Did Michel Foucault really say 'The human being is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.'?

Michel Foucault:

The human being is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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The Order of Things

Date: 1966

Humorous

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