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Quotes from Foucault — José Guilherme Merquior

1941–1991 Brazil

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So at bottom Foucault's enterprise seems stuck on the horns of a huge epistemological dilemma: if it tells the truth, then all knowledge is suspect in its pretense of objectivity; but in that case, how can the theory itself vouch for its truth? It's like the famous paradox about the Cretean Liar--and Foucault seemed quite unable to get out of it (which explains why he didn't even try to face it).

Foucault (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: José Guilherme Merquior (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.