L’archéologie du savoir

The Archaeology of Knowledge

Author

Michel Foucault

Language

French

Year

1969

Country

France

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

modern europe

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The Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault is a 1969 treatise about the methodology and historiography of the systems of thought (epistemes) and of knowledge. Foucault argues that these systems follow hidden rules that shape the limits of language and thought in any period or domain. The archaeology of knowledge is the analytical method that Foucault used in Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1961), The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (1963), and The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966).