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2 M. Lee, EU Environmental Law, Governance and Decision–Making, Oxford: Hart Publishing, Second Edition, 2014 (hereafter “EU Environmental Law”), Preface.

3 The post–modern approach is characterized by the rejection of, inter alia, universal rationality, objectivity, reductionism, and absolutes. Instead, it emphasizes the social construction of reality, social subjectivism, holism, and relativism. In this view, any knowledge, including scientific knowledge, reflects specific interests and serves as an instrument for domination. “The theme that underlies all Foucault's work is the relationship between power and knowledge, and how the former is used to control and define the latter. What authorities claim as ‘scientific knowledge’ are really just means of social control.” Philip Stokes, Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers (London: Arcturus, 2004), at p. 157 (discussing the theories of Michel Foucault). See also Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979, Translated by Graham Burchell (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Put differently, science, law, and other domains of influence are instruments to effect the human “will to power.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886), trans. Walter Kaufmann, New York: Vintage Books, 1966. Cf. Gary Minda. Postmodern Legal Movements: Law and Jurisprudence at Century's End. New York: New York University Press, 1995. M. Foucault, Nietzsche, Freud, Marx (1964). Paul Ricoeur called these three thinkers masters of the “school of suspicion,” because they look for concealed motives, such the will to power (Nietzsche), sexual desire (Freud), and class interest (Marx). P. Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy, translated by D. Savage, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970, p. 32.

4 Abbot opined that “[h]er analysis of the challenges [the EU] faces and the extent to which it has responded is both innovative and stimulating.” C. Abbot. Book review of Maria Lee, EU Environmental Law: Challenges, Change, and Decision-Making (2005), 69(5) Modern Law Review 2006, 855-868.

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11 The terms fact and value are likewise left undefined.

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