TY  - JOUR
A1  - Vogelmann, Frieder
T1  - Should critique be tamed by realism? A defense of radical critiques of reason
T2  - Le foucaldien
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 I will defend 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, I argue, 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, I briefly analyze the political and epistemic strategy at work in two exemplary untruths in politics.
KW  - critique of reason
KW  - post-truth
KW  - bruno latour
KW  - feminist epistemology
KW  - critical theory
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51254
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-512547
SN  - 2515-2076
N1  - Copyright:: © 2019 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
VL  - 5
IS  - 1, Art. 5
SP  - 1
EP  - 34
PB  - Open Library of Humanities
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -