It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time


The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature (ed. The New Press, 2006) - ISBN: 9781595586575

Michel Foucault Quotes

It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power...

It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power...

It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power...

It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power...