“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
Lecture 1
Lectures on Education (1855)
“Because knowledge is power, every hegemonic power challenged by “another knowledge” must try to stay in the center of knowledge. However, not every power is the right center for every knowledge. Reflective knowledge cannot be separated from its subject.”
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 77
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