Describe the relationship of reason and power in Bent Flyvbjerg’s Power and Rationality. How have Enlightenment thinkers like Francis Bacon and Immanuel Kant conceptualized this relationship? How does Flyvbjerg, building on Nietzsche and Foucault, invert this Enlightenment understanding? Discuss two illustrations/episodes from Flyvbjerg’s text that help make his point.
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