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You ask the question how powerful language is. A disembodied piece of text will not change a belief system very easily. History, psychology and Foucault show us that power can exert itself in language. But it's meaning and weight is context dependent. The speaker matters, however deeply our image of...

This is me. I'm 26. I get bored with small problems, but am still too dumb to manage big ones. So I have started reading. My masters in philosophy (cultural, social) starts next week. Bachelor's in something terrible. I cannot wait to suck you dry of reading advice and disgracefully reductive explan...