Regime of truth
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Michel Foucault prefers not to use the term truth itself but "Regimes of Truth". In his historical investigations he found truth to be something that was itself a part of, or embedded within, a given power structure. Truth for Foucault is also something that shifts through various episteme throughout history (Foucault, 1970)
“’Truth’ is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A ‘regime of truth’”(Foucalt, 1980, p.133).
References
- Foucault, M. (1970). The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage Books
- Foucault, M. (1980). Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972–1977. New York: Pantheon.
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