(World of man) Translation of archeologie du savoir. EnglishII. In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think continuous accumulation of knowledge, interrupt its slow development, and force it to enter a new time, cut it off from it empirical origin and its original motivations, cleanse it of its imaginary complicities; they direct historical analysis away from the search for silent begi