Rethinking Ideology

Jaeggi, Rahel

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“…Just as the myth of the savage is cognitively dysfunctional as an anthropological conception yet socially functional within the narrow context of imperialism, critical theorists like Horkheimer and Adorno diagnose modern instrumental reason as “a dysfunctional cognitive norm, functional within very narrow parameters of capital accumulation and the maintenance of ideology but dysfunctional as a reliable, truth-seeking practice” (Alcoff 2007: 50). For two contemporary discussions of ideology as a socially functional cognitive dysfunction, see Haslanger (2012) and Jaeggi (2009).…”

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Epistemic Injustice in the Space of Reasons

Congdon

2015

Episteme

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In this paper, I make explicit some implicit commitments to realism and conceptualism in recent work in social epistemology exemplied by Miranda Fricker and Charles Mills. I offer a survey of recent writings at the intersection of social epistemology, feminism, and critical race theory, showing that commitments to realism and conceptualism are at once implied yet undertheorized in the existing literature. I go on to offer an explicit defense of these commitments by drawing from the epistemological framework of John McDowell, demonstrating the relevance of the metaphor of the "space of reasons" for theorizing and criticizing instances of epistemic injustice. I then point out how McDowell's own view requires expansion and revision in light of Mills' concept of "epistemologies of ignorance." I conclude that, when their strengths are used to make up for each others' weaknesses, Mills and McDowell's positions mutually reinforce one another, producing a powerful model for theorizing instances of systematic ignorance and false belief.

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Epistemic Injustice in the Space of Reasons

Congdon

2015

Episteme

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“…This historical materialist analysis revolves around the dialectical relationship between appropriation and exploitation in the ‘surplus politics’ of academic life. It is my ‘hermeneutic of suspicion’ (Jaeggi, 2008), that a potent immanent critique can be realized through exploration of the dialectical relation between these two moments of surplus extraction in the accumulation processes of what has been called ‘academic capitalism’ (see Slaughter and Rhoades, 2004; Cantwell and Kauppinen, 2014; Münch, 2014). However, what follows is not so much an immanent critique, but an imperfect or partial immanent critique, that is to say, an indication of where an immanent critique of neoliberal academia can be put into motion.…”

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Dispossessing academics: The shift to ‘appropriation’ in the governing of academic life

Welsh

2019

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article offers a critical theoretical exploration of the transformation of academic life that is currently taking place under the sign of ‘neoliberalization’. The main aim is to differentiate appropriation from exploitation as strategies of surplus labour dispossession, to identify the growth of appropriative techniques in academic life, and to situate the proliferation of such techniques in the broader transformations of global political economy. Alloyed with poststructuralist social theory, the historical materialist thrust of the article demonstrates how, in the technologically articulate ‘social factory’ of advanced capitalism, the spatial operations of these techniques of dispossession have a particularly ‘aesthetic’ character that is immanent to their appropriative operation, and which renders their workings both more discreet and effective. The article aims: (1) to problematize the neoliberal concepts of efficiency, transparency, and autonomy, in terms of practical outcomes; (2) to stimulate reflexive consideration of the ‘positioning’ of academics themselves in the reproduction of these techniques; and (3) to ask how these techniques might generate new ‘historical subjects’ of struggle and organization in academic life.

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“…Yet in recent writings on this topic, it is not only possible but commonplace to cite one of these definitions without referring, even tangentially, to the other. In ‘Rethinking Ideology’, for example, Rahel Jaeggi suggests that critique is ‘immanent’ when it ‘takes norms that are inherent to an existing (social) situation as its starting point’ (Jaeggi 2009: 75). Similarly, in a recent article by James Gordon Finlayson, ‘Hegel, Adorno, and the Origins of Immanent Critique’, we find a gloss that unambiguously represents only the first definition: ‘What makes a criticism immanent is that the standard of criticism belongs to or inheres in (in a suitably specified sense) the object of criticism’ (Finlayson 2014: 1144–45).…”

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On Immanent Critique in Hegel’s Phenomenology

Becker¹

2018

Hegel Bulletin

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AbstractI begin by identifying an ambiguity in the post-Hegelian literature on Immanent Critique, distinguishing two possible definitions: (a) judging an object against its ‘internal’ norms; and (b) accounting for one’s own standpoint with reference to the object. I then claim that both definitions are represented in Hegel’s Phenomenology, and develop extended interpretations of material from the Introduction in order to clarify and substantiate this thesis. This yields revisionist readings of the famous ‘internal criteria’ and ‘self examination’ tropes. My discussion builds towards elucidating the relation between the two definitions of Immanent Critique I have distinguished, as it is developed in the Phenomenology.

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Rethinking Ideology

Cited by 172 publications

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Epistemic Injustice in the Space of Reasons

Epistemic Injustice in the Space of Reasons

Dispossessing academics: The shift to ‘appropriation’ in the governing of academic life

On Immanent Critique in Hegel’s Phenomenology

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