L'archéologie du savoir

Foucault, M. (1969). L'archéologie du savoir. The Archaeology of Knowledge.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1969

Link

https://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Bibliotheque-des-Sciences-humaines/L-archeologie-du-savoir

Cited from

futurism_foresight, history_historiography, philosophy, sociology_anthropology

Cited by

8 citations across 8 artifacts.

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Primes

• Anachronism
  • Software-systems analogue (structurally isomorphic), exhibiting the discontinuity-and-rupture pattern Foucault (1969) made central to his archaeology of knowledge:

    This sourceMakes discontinuity and rupture central to the analysis of discursive formations, against received notions of historical continuity — supplies the discontinuity-and-rupture frame for the software-systems example (D40-072).

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    Right work on the right topic — Foucault's archaeology of discursive formations — but no retrieved passage states that discontinuity and rupture are central, the claim's load-bearing clause.

    “The horizon of archaeology, therefore, is not a science, a rationality, a mentality, a culture; it is a tangle of interpositivities whose limits and points of intersection cannot be fixed in a single operation.”

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• Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
  • Foucault's (1969) archaeological method offers a complementary analytic — tracing the historical formation of discursive regimes that determine which statements can count as authoritative.

    This sourceÉditions Gallimard. (English: The Archaeology of Knowledge, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith, Pantheon Books, 1972.) Develops the archaeological analysis of discursive formations and the rules that determine which statements count as authoritative, complementing CLA's account of how dominant worldviews are constituted.

• Continuity vs. Rupture
  • Continuity vs. Rupture is the interpretive dimension along which (1) an observed change in a system is located between two idealized endpoints: fully continuous gradual evolution on one end, fully discontinuous sharp break on the other, (2) the location is determined by examining whether the state variables describing the system change smoothly or jump across a boundary, and whether the causal structure on the far side of the change preserves or severs the one on the near side, (3) the judgment is partially a function of the observer's time-resolution and variable-choice — what looks continuous at centennial resolution can look like rupture at annual resolution, and vice versa — and (4) the resulting assessment is used to classify the change as evolutionary, revolutionary, or mixed, with different explanatory and prescriptive implications attached to each class, as Foucault (1969) developed in his archaeological method.
• Cultural Hegemony
  • The concept gives analysts a vocabulary for the most elusive form of power: the power to shape what seems obvious, common-sense, or unthinkable, what Foucault (1969) approached through the archaeology of discursive formations.

    This sourceArchaeological analysis of discursive formations — the rules that organize what can be said in a period.

• Grand Narrative (Metanarrative)
  • a narrative purporting to give a unifying account of history, society, or a domain under a single trajectory or logic; the legitimating function

    This sourceDevelops the archaeological analysis of discursive formations and argues that what counts as knowledge in an era is shaped by hidden structures of power; supports the legitimating-function claim that a metanarrative operates as an implicit framework legitimating institutions and epistemic practices.

• Historicism
  • Foucault (1969) in L'Archéologie du savoir challenged continuist historicism by proposing discontinuity models of historical change, arguing that historicism's assumption of underlying continuity obscures the ruptures that actually characterize intellectual history.

    This sourceDevelops the archaeological analysis of discursive formations, providing a power-and-discourse framework that complements CLA's account of how dominant worldviews are constituted.

• Presentism
  • T1 — Presentism vs. legitimate moral evaluation.

    This sourceDevelops the archaeological analysis of discursive formations, providing a power-and-discourse framework that complements CLA's account of how dominant worldviews are constituted.

Domain-specific

• Discourse
  • Linguistics and discourse analysis use the concept to study cohesion, coherence, and turn-taking at the text level; sociology (following Foucault and Habermas) uses it to analyse how institutionalised regimes of knowledge — medical discourse, legal discourse, scientific discourse — govern who can speak as expert, which questions are askable, and which explanations count as real

    This sourceFoucault's methodological statement of discursive formations — rules of formation, and the 'enunciative modalities' that fix who is qualified to speak — which is the Foucauldian half of this sentence; the Habermas half is a different construct and is not carried by this work.

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Links previously used in the corpus

Before the registry existed this work was also linked 2 other ways.

• https://www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/l-archeologie-du-savoir/9782070119875 ×2
• https://archive.org/details/the_archeology_of_knowledge ×1

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