文档介绍：Michel Foucault (1969)
The Archæology of Knowledge
Chapter 1
The Unities of Discourse
Source: The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), publ. Routledge, 1972. The First 3 Chapters of main body of work are reproduced here.
The use of concepts of discontinuity, rupture, threshold, limit, series, and transformation present all historical analysis not only with questions of
procedure, but with theoretical problems. It is these problems that will be studied here (the questions of procedure will be examined in later empirical
studies - if the opportunity, the desire, and the courage to undertake them do not desert me). These theoretical problems too will be examined only in a
particular field: in those disciplines - so unsure of their frontiers, and so vague in content - that we call the history of ideas, or of thought, or of science,
or of knowledge.
But there is a negative work to be carried out first: we must rid ourselves of a whole mass of notions, each of which, in its own way, diversifies the
theme of continuity. They may not have a very rigorous conceptual structure, but they have a very precise function. Take the notion of tradition: it is
intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both essive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to
rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction