Claim: Writing a total of nine monographs from 1954-1984, Michel Foucault wrote the Archaeology of Knowledge in 1969, which is a treatise about the methodology of the systems of thought and knowledge..
Evidence: The Archaeology of Knowledge (L'archéologie du savoir, 1969) by Michel Foucault is a treatise about the methodology and historiography of the systems of thought (epistemes) and of knowledge (discursive formations) which follow rules that operate beneath the consciousness of the subject men and women, and which define a conceptual system of possibility that determines the boundaries of language and thought used in a given time and domain. 1954 Mental Illness and Psychology
translated by A. M. Sheridan-Smith. New York: Harper and Row (1976)
reprinted as Madness: The Invention of an Idea. New York: Harper Perennial (2011) 1961 Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Abridged; translated by R. Howard. London: Tavistock (1965)
History of Madness
Unbridged; edited by Jean Khalfa, translated Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa. London: Routledge (2006) 1963 The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception 1963 Death and the Labyrinth: the World of Raymond Roussel 1966 The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences 1969 Archaeology of Knowledge
Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. London: Routledge (2002) 1971 "The Discourse on Language"
Pp. 215–37 in Archaeology of Knowledge. Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Pantheon (1972). 1975 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 1976–1984 The History of Sexuality