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Article: Nietzsche's Political Critique of Modern Science.
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- Perspectives on Political Science
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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The epistemological foundations of modern science, including those of political science, have been challenged in recent years by the broad and diffuse intellectual movement known as postmodernism. According to the postmodern critique, science does not discover the one truth, but only asserts an interpretation rooted in the moral perspective of a socially dominant group; and its hidden purpose lies in delegitimizing the voices of groups or individuals who happen not to fit in with the rest of society. This critique is associated with a number of thinkers, including Derrida and Foucault, but it is generally acknowledged to have originated with Nietzsche (cf. Hatab 1995, ...
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