According to the postmodernist Michel Foucault

A) the key to social or political power is the power to specify what constitutes knowledge.
B) the key to social or political power is economic.
C) modern means secular, and a return to the spiritual or premodern is preferred.
D) a return to the classical canon is necessary.
E) truth and meaning are the assertions of the masses seeking to attain power.


Ans: A

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