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Breaking the Spell of the Postmodern World | Michael Young

Sovereign Nations

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Foucault's Question Is Power?

Foucault: Truth is not about descriptions of the world which correspond to reality. What counts as true is a matter of who gets to decide what is true and how they get to decide it, he says. In Foucault's view there are certain people in a society who are given the privilege of deciding what is true because they have validity,. legitimacy, social status and trust that is required to be believed.

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