Throughout the lecture, our professor read from European philosophers who had come to the same conclusion Nietzsche had. “Michel Foucault argued that ‘the individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces,’ ”10 he said, pausing to peer at us over his glasses. “Foucault and Lyotard show us that there is actually no such thing as a grand narrative that can claim to be absolute truth; rather we construct these narratives to control others. There is no such thing as ‘meaning’ without a power
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This feels accurate but it is still a generalization
