Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)

Part I: Introduction (pp. 3-17)

Part II: The Discursive Regularities (pp. 21-76)

1. The unities of discourse
2. Discursive formations
3. The formation of objects
4. The formation of enunciative modalities
5. The formation of concepts
6. The formation of strategies
7. Remarks and Consequences

Part III: The Statement and the Archive (pp. 79-131)

1. Defining the statement
2. The enunciative function
3. The description of statements
4. Rarity, exteriority, accumulation (Foucault as a 'happy positivist')
5. The historical a priori and the archive

Part IV: Archaeological Description (pp. 135-95)

1. Archaeology and the history of ideas
2. The original and the regular
3. Contradictions
4. The comparative facts
5. Change and transformation
6. Science and knowledge

Part V: Conclusion (pp. 199-211)

Appendix: The Discourse on Language (pp. 215-37)

Michel Foucault, L'Archéologie du savoir. Paris : Gallimard, 1969; ET: The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York: Tavistok Publications/Pantheon, 1972.

Michel Foucault, L'Ordre du discours. Paris : Gallimard, 1971; ET: “Orders of discourse,” trans. Rupert Swyer in Social Science Information 10/2 (April 1971) 7-30; see list of corrections to this translation by Meaghan Morris in included in M. Morris and P. Patton, eds., Michel Foucault: power, truth, strategy. Sydney, Australia: Feral Publications, 1979, 102-5; Swyer's translation was reprinted as “The discourse on language,” In The Archæology of knowledge. New York: Pantheon, 1972, 215-37.