archaeological level

is the structural level of phenomena which concerns that which made [an event or a situation] possible.

[The] archaeological level -the level of what made [an event or a situation] possible.' (The Order of Things, p.31) Strict analysis of discourse (Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.104) Archaeology and genealogy alternate and support each other (Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.105). Archaeology is structuralist. It tries to take an objective neutral position and it avoids causal theories of change.For a richer account of this concept click here to read a brief paraphrase of the first chapter of Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge (net)

archaeological level, n.Definitions

archaeological level