Die Macht falscher Fragen und die Möglichkeit der Revolution : zur Insistenz auf der "genaueren kritischen Fragestellung" bei Benjamin und Foucault
- According to Benjamin and Foucault, calling something into question is not just a precondition of critical practice but its very realisation. The effect of critique depends on how a question is asked. An inaccurately posed question supports what it aspired to criticise. Critical practice thus involves a critique of allegedly critical questions. In their critique of power and violence, Foucault and Benjamin expose the moment in which a critical question becomes uncritical and subsequently seek its critical transformation. In Foucault, this movement is identical with "desubjugation", and in Benjamin, with "revolution". A revolutionary resoluteness in raising critical questions, however, can turn out to be decisionistic and uncritical itself. In this paper I reconstruct the struggle for an accurate critical question in Benjamin and Foucault and address how the dialectical turn into uncritical action might be avoided.
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| Author: | Jonas HellerGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-610964 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-593-50562-6 |
| Parent Title (German): | Praktiken der Kritik / Katia Henriette Backhaus, David Roth-Isigkeit (Hg.), Normative orders ; Band 17 |
| Publisher: | Campus Verlag |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt, New York |
| Editor: | Katia Henriette Backhaus, David Roth-Isigkeit |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | German |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/05/31 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/05/31 |
| Tag: | Benjamin, Walter; Foucault, Michel; Kritik |
| Page Number: | 31 |
| First Page: | 49 |
| Last Page: | 79 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 480793654 |
| Institutes: | Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften / Philosophie |
| Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
