Abstract
The article tries to answer the question: Why the publication of 'The Order of Things' aroused the polemics about M. Foucault's being a structuralist? Unlike structuralism, Foucault's archeology introduces semantic structures into history: he examines the dramatic rearrangement of words and things in history to unveil the historical background of the production of the period-related, transitory, discontinued, relative knowledge.
In the author's view, this method is contradictory in itself as it does not consider its own politics of meaning: While describing the three ways of the epistemic generating of representation in every politics of meaning, even in its own one, creating thus the meta-representation.