“Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”

Source: Equisse d'une Théorie de la Pratique (1977), p. 164; as cited in: Jan E. M. Houben (1996) Ideology and Status of Sanskrit, p. 190

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French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher 1930–2002

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