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15043 | Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms [Foucault] |
Full Idea: Each society has its regime of truth, its 'general politics' of truth - the types of discourse it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms for distinguishing; the means of sanctioning it; the values in its acquisition; the status of its keepers. | |
From: Michel Foucault (Truth and Power (interview) [1976], p.131) | |
A reaction: [compressed] This idea is appropriately filed under 'society' rather than under 'truth'. Foucault knows there is a genuine truth beneath the complex social story. |