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Epigraph
Only one truth appears before our eyes: wealth, fertility and sweet strength in all its insidious universality. In contrast, we are unaware of the prodigious machinery of the will to truth, with its vocation of exclusion.
Michel Foucault, ‘The Orders of Discourse’
NORMAL NOW
Individualism as Conformity
Mark G. E. Kelly
polity
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Acknowledgements
I thank James Kent for his comments on an initial draft of this book (and for his broader willingness to act as a sounding board for my ideas), three anonymous