<b>Power and Truth in Foucault and Habermas
Abstract
Current paper examines how truth is enmeshed with power in Foucault´s and Habermas´s theories, highlighting similarities and differences within the two theoretical perspectives. If, on the one hand, truth in Foucault is based on a monologic imposition, on the other hand, Habermas insists on the dialogic understanding of the truth, although in both cases, related to power, at opposite positions, as Habermas himself points out in ‘The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity’. Foucault takes on a capillary perspective of power, whereas this relationship is most clear in Habermas through his idea of the colonization of the life world, which is close to the idea of imposing a speech on the other, with the subsequent forming of truth, as in Foucault. The essay draws attention to the epistemological implications of these two perspectives, or rather, the more they are distant from one another, the more they underscore the deep bond between the production (and imposition) of truth and power in our society.
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