TY  - JOUR
T1  - New in Le foucaldien: "Should Critique be Tamed by Realism? A Defense of Radical Critiques of Reason" by Frieder Vogelmann
T2  - foucaultblog
N2  - Critique, and especially radical critique of reason, is under pressure from two opponents. Whereas the proponents of "post-critical" or "acritical" thinking denounce critique as an empty and self-righteous repetition of debunking, the decriers of "post-truth" accuse critique of having helped to bring about our current "post-truth" politics. Both advocate realism as a limit critique must respect, but Vogelmann defends the claim that we urgently need radical critiques of reason because they offer a more precise diagnosis of the untruths in politics the two opponents of critique are rightfully worried about. Radical critiques of reason are possible, he argues, if we turn our attention to the practices of criticizing, if we refrain from a sovereign epistemology, and if we pluralize reason without trivializing it. In order to demonstrate the diagnostic advantage of radical critiques of reason, he briefly analyzes the political and epistemic strategy at work in two exemplary untruths in politics.
KW  - critical theory
KW  - critique
KW  - feminist epistemology
KW  - latour
KW  - post-factual
KW  - post-truth
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51255
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-512554
UR  - https://www.fsw.uzh.ch/foucaultblog/blog/239/new-in-le-foucaldien-should-critique-be-tamed-by-realism
N1  - licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (cc-by 4.0)
IS  - August 22, 2019
PB  - Universität Zürich. Forschungsstelle für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
CY  - Zürich
ER  -