以考古学的方法梳理人类知识的历史，似乎是在追寻落在时间之外、今天又归于沉寂的印迹。这实际上就是对话语进行描述，但不是描述书籍（与其作者的关系），也不是描述理论（与其结构的一致性），而是研究通过时间表现为医学、政治经济学、生物学的日常而神秘的总体。在这观念历史努力通过辨读文本揭示思想的秘密运动的地方，作者要表现的是“言及之物”的层次：它出现的条件，并合的形式及环节，变化的规律……。“言及之物”的领域，就是所谓的“档案”。考古学旨在对之进行分析 Archeological methods to sort out the history of human knowledge appear to be pursuing traces of silence beyond today’s time. This is actually a description of the discourse, but not the description of the book (its relationship with the author) nor the description of the theory (its consistency with the structure), but rather the study of the relationship between the time of presentation of medicine, political economy, biology, daily Mysterious overall. Where this concept history endeavors to reveal the secret movement of ideas through the reading of the text, the author expresses the level of “what is spoken of”: the conditions for its emergence, the forms and links of cohesion, and the laws of change. The domain of “what is spoken” is the so-called “archives.” Archeology aims to analyze it