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In choosing the term ‘archaeology’ as a label for his approach to the history of science, Foucault took advantage of the fact that this term had already gained currency in France. Since the fifties, the concept of ‘archaeology’ (as well as the concept of ‘geology’) had been used to characterize the various fashionable intellectual movements of the day, movements like phenomenology, structuralist anthropology, psychoanalysis, Bachelardian epistemology, and Annalist history.
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Kusch, M. (1991). On the Very Notion of ‘Archaeology’. In: Foucault’s Strata and Fields. Synthese Library, vol 218. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3540-5_2
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