Sentence examples for of knowledge and power from inspiring English sources

Long, long after I was able to pronounce the words, I encountered the reality of Foucault's profound insight into the individual reciprocity of knowledge and power.

It draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault's writings on sexuality and his notion that bodies are given meaning by discourse and social structures of knowledge and power.

White heat has become one of those pernicious cliches like the "two cultures" which have corrupted our understanding of the operation of knowledge and power in modern Britain.

These stages of development (gunasthanas) involve progressive manifestations of the innate faculties of knowledge and power and are accompanied by decreasing sinfulness and increasing purity.

The fact was, as he now allowed himself to recognize, that even at their first meeting he had sensed something remarkable about her, as though she really had access to some uncommon order of knowledge and power.

In "Driftglass" (1966), a crippled "amphiman," who has been surgically altered to breathe underwater, muses about the conflicting impulses that drive people like him to risk so much in pursuit of knowledge and power.

But as Professor Barreca noted in a conversation, Carmela, Meadow and Janice are more conscious that while they have no authority in their universe, they do have power: the power of knowledge and the power to pass judgment.

It is attractive and reasonably astute in examining the fulcrum of morality in the advancement of knowledge and of power.

His deep spiritual life, his absolute devotion to God, his extraordinary learning and breadth of knowledge, and his power of interpretation, there are things we have benefited enormously from at Westminster Abbey.

This approach requires that resources are shared more evenly between training retailers and strengthening community involvement, maintaining a balance of knowledge, and therefore power, between them.

Of greater relevance was his suspicion of the move from conceivability to possibility, and inconceivability to impossibility, thinking that answers to questions about conceivability were dependent upon the state of knowledge and imaginative powers of the person entertaining them.