text: He published Les Mots et les choses ( The Order of Things ) during the height of interest in structuralism in 1966 , and Foucault was quickly grouped with scholars such as Jacques Lacan , Claude LÃ vi-Strauss , and Roland Barthes as the newest , latest wave of thinkers set to topple the existentialism popularized by Jean-Paul Sartre .
simplified: In 1966 he published Les Mots et les choses ( The Order of Things ) , which was very popular .