The king is dead. Long live the king

Critical accounting has drawn on postmodern philosophy for its critique of accounting's foundations in modernist and Enlightenment thought. But ironically, and despite protestations to the contrary, at the same time that we are rejecting one orthodoxy, we may be replacing it with another. This paper looks critically at the influence of postmodern philosophy, especially that of Foucault, on critical accounting.

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