Power relations shape and ground what counts as true and false how we reason about them
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:24:04 -0500
> From: Rontee707@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Foucault and truth
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> It's not that there is no "Truth" it's just there to serve power. Power
> determines truth.
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> c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Foucault's views on truth are the regular subject of media controversy -
> > usually along the lines that he is a relativist, a nihilist, has no respect
> > for the truth etc. etc.
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> > Has anybody seen any recent examples of this kind of discussion in the
> > popular intellectual press?
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> > For an example see Raymond Tallis,
> > Review article Dec 21 2001, Times Literary Supplement 'Foucault, as every
> > schoolchild knows, denied that there were such things as objective truths'.
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> > Clare
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