Post-foundationalism, Systems Theory and the Impossibility of Critique

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen; Erik Højbjerg; Anders la Cour

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94123-3_15

Post-foundationalism, Systems Theory and the Impossibility of Critique

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Erik Højbjerg, Anders la Cour

Institut for Ledelse, Politik og Filosofi

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review

Abstrakt

Should we drop critique just because of its impossibility? This chapter tries to find a way to eat the cake and have it too, insisting in the meaningfulness of having a critical practice taking as point of departure the impossibility of critique. First, we discuss the classical concept of critique and how it ran into problems as demonstrated in many post-foundational theories. Then, we present the work of Luhmann’s epistemology and its particular problematization of the lack of any stable foundation for critique. Finally, the chapter elaborates on how to respond to the challenges of a foundational critique without abandoning the ambition of committing to a critical sociology.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Discourse, Culture and Organization : Inquiries into Relational Structures of Power
Redaktører	Tomas Marttila
Antal sider	24
Udgivelses sted	Cham
Forlag	Palgrave Macmillan
Publikationsdato	2019
Sider	343-366
Kapitel	15
ISBN (Trykt)	9783319941226
ISBN (Elektronisk)	9783319941233
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94123-3_15
Status	Udgivet - 2019

Navn	Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse

Bibliografisk note

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Emneord

Post-foundationalism
Systems theory
Luhmann
Critique
Critical sociology

Citationsformater

Åkerstrøm Andersen, N., Højbjerg, E., & la Cour, A. (2019). Post-foundationalism, Systems Theory and the Impossibility of Critique. I T. Marttila (red.), Discourse, Culture and Organization: Inquiries into Relational Structures of Power (s. 343-366). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94123-3_15

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