The work of the intellectual is not to sculpt the beautiful soul, but to tear away the masks of ignorance.
— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

Date: 1977

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