Michel Foucault's archaeological trajectory: possible paths

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Abstract: The article is a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of History of Madness by Michel Foucault and also a cut around the type of history undertaken by the author, the archeology of knowledge, which consists in excavating the different discourses on madness, since the renaissance until modernity, aiming to analyse the way western society, in order to assert its reason, establish its morality and impose its order, had to push away everything that represented the unknown, the different, the other, in short, the tragic experience of madness. However, such experience, in the Foucaultian perspective, did not cease to remain alive, underneath history, as a type of clamor for freedom, for the outside thought, through a foreign, plural, revolutionary language, which he finds in literature.