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(2013) Lectures on the will to know and Oedipal knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
IN THE STRUGGLE UNDERWAY in the seventh and sixth centuries, money appeared, following the example of Corinth, as a subtle and detailed instrument; while the land was being divided up, it allowed indebtedness to be maintained along with all the inequalities linked to it; it thus enabled political power (scarcely shifted) to be kept in the hands of the wealthy property owners.
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Foucault, M. (2013). 3 march 1971, in Lectures on the will to know and Oedipal knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-166.
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