In his 1966 book, The Order of Things (which had his first English translation in 1970), Foucault engages with the historical markers of separation of knowledge system and classifies such a separation with three kinds of epistemes: i) Renaissance episteme ii) Classical episteme and iii) modern episteme.
What is an episteme? Episteme, according to Foucault refers to what exists “…in any given culture and at any given moment…” And “there is always only one episteme that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in a theory or silently invested in a practice. (Foucault, 168). Continue reading →
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