The Archaeology of Knowledge.

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The first English translation of Foucault’s only methodological work, an exposition of his archaeological method used implicitly in Madness and Civilization (1961), The Birth of the Clinic (1963), and The Order of Things (1966). The archaeological method is premised upon the conception that discursive formations or systems of thought and knowledge are constructed and governed by rules, beyond those of grammar and logic, that operate beneath the consciousness of individual subjects and define a system of conceptual possibilities that determines the boundaries of thought in a given domain and period.

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