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Question
______ wrote the book,' Archaeology of Knowledge'.
Options
Karl Marx
Michel Foucault
Lucien Febvre
Voltaire
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Solution
Michel Foucault wrote the book,' Archaeology of Knowledge'.
Explanation:
The French historian Michel Foucault brought forth a new concept in historiography. In his book, ‘Archaeology of Knowledge’, he argued that the prevailing practice of arranging historical events in a chronological order is not right.
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