Knowledge replaces royal wealth and force as the source of sovereignty.

Evidence

Gaining a new self-awareness and tracing the sources of knowledge and memory means denouncing all the mystifications of history. If it reinserts itself into the web of knowledge, the nobility can become a force once more, and can establish itself as the subject of history. So if it wishes to become a historical force, that implies that it must, in the first instance, acquire a new self-awareness and reinsert itself into the order of knowledge. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 4543 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Knowledge of colonized peoples produces power to control them; Modern philosophy replaces substance-dualism solipsism with knowledge-based connection to the Other.; A colonizer’s encyclopedia of a land can displace the natives’ own self-knowledge. (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Knowledge of colonized peoples produces power to control them #exemplifies (0.80)
• A colonizer’s encyclopedia of a land can displace the natives’ own self-knowledge. #exemplifies (0.80)
• State power derives from sovereign capabilities, not merely economic wealth #corroborates (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 181
• Political re-empowerment begins by reclaiming knowledge rather than by fighting #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 4543
• Modern philosophy replaces substance-dualism solipsism with knowledge-based connection to the Other. #expands (0.75)
• Genealogies recover subjugated knowledges and contest juridical and economic models of power. #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 424
• Colonial powers replaced native scripts to sever colonies from their heritage and elite. #exemplifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 511