“It’s easy to sneer at the notion of disinterested scholarly inquiry — especially when the right has cynically deployed the concept to attack academics whose work runs up against their political prejudices. And it has become axiomatic on the left that nothing is free or pure, nothing liberated from the workings of power; to think otherwise is false consciousness and self-delusion. Everything is political. And maybe this is so.
quarta-feira, 29 de setembro de 2021
Ciência ética
But the ideals of scholarship and public service represented by universities at their best are not undone just because they come to us compromised from the start. Like so many other ideals of liberal society, their power derives from their impossibility.”
terça-feira, 28 de setembro de 2021
Sociedade de direito privado
segunda-feira, 27 de setembro de 2021
domingo, 26 de setembro de 2021
Expertocracia
The comforting old assumption seems more hollow by the day. The “gathering revolt” has arrived.
Livre expressão
“Rather than spurious finger-pointing, Banned Books Week should be a moment to bridge political divides in support of freedom of expression, a principle and value that transcends politics.”
Ciência
“The ideals of the scientific process aren’t the problem,” he writes on the last page, “the problem is the betrayal of those ideals by the way we do research in practice.”
Popper
Strauss to Voegelin:
"[Popper] was beneath contempt: it was the most washed-out lifeless positivism trying to whistle in the dark, linked to a complete inability to think “rationally,” although it passed itself off as “rationalism”—it was very bad. I cannot imagine that such a man ever wrote something that was worthwhile reading, and yet it appears to be a professional duty to become familiar with his production."
Voegelin in reply: "The opportunity to speak a few deeply felt words about Karl Popper to a kindred soul is too golden to endure a long delay. This Popper has been for years, not exactly a stone against which one stumbles, but a troublesome pebble that I must continually nudge from the path, in that he is constantly pushed upon me by people who insist that his work on the “open society and its enemies” is one of the social science masterpieces of our times. This insistence persuaded me to read the work even though I would otherwise not have touched it. You are quite right that it is a vocational duty to make ourselves familiar with the ideas of such a work when they lie in our field; I would hold out against this duty the other vocational duty, not to write and publish such a work. In that Popper violated this elementary vocational duty and stole several hours of my lifetime, which I devoted in fulfilling my vocational duty, I feel completely justified in saying without reservation that this book is impudent, dilettantish crap. Every single sentence is a scandal, but it is still possible to lift out a few main annoyances."
sábado, 25 de setembro de 2021
Giorgio Agamben
„Das Lager ist der Raum, der sich öffnet, wenn der Ausnahmezustand zur Regel zu werden beginnt.“
(Giorgio Agamben)
„Erlernte Ohnmacht macht den Ausnahmezustand zur psychischen Dauersituation, macht zukünftige Kritik und Widerstand unwahrscheinlicher. Schlimmer noch: Wir erleben nicht nur einen Präzedenzfall staatlichen Handelns im Top-Down-Verfahren, sondern auch eine Präkonfiguration unserer Psyche.“
„Durch solche massiven Restriktionen entsteht eine neue Normalität: die l…
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