Full Idea
When I talk about power relations and games of truth, I am absolutely not saying that games of truth are just concealed power relations - that would be a horrible exaggeration.
Gist of Idea
Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration
Source
Michel Foucault (Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom [1984], p.296)
Book Reference
Foucault,Michel: 'Essential Works 1954-1984 I: Ethics', ed/tr. Rabinow,Paul [Penguin 1994], p.296
A Reaction
I take this to be a denial of the more absurd forms of relativism. I think there is an interesting convergence between this kind of continental thinking, and the social view of justification found in the later work of Alvin Goldman.