'truth' Is To Be Understood As A System Of Ordered Procedures For The Production, Regulation, Distribution, Circulation And Operation Of Statements. '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.

-Michel Foucault

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'truth' Is To Be Understood As A

Michel Foucault

'truth' Is To Be Understood As A System Of Ordered Procedures For The Production, Regulation, Distribution, Circulation And Operation Of Statements. '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.

Topic

Knowledge And Power

Regulation

Truth Is

In The Middle Ages And The Renaissance, Man's Dispute With Madness Was Dramatic Debate In Which He Confronted The Secret Powers Of The World; The Experience Of Madness Was Clouded By Images Of The Fall And The Will Of God, Of The Beast And The Metamorphosis, And Of All The Marvelous Secrets Of Knowledge

Fall

Men

Secret