The Effectiveness of Knowledge

Political epistemology poses a demanding task: in order to do justice to the internal relationships between truth and knowledge on the one hand, and politics and society on the other, it must reformulate the concepts of both epistemology and social and political theory. For the concept of knowledge, this means taking equal account of the truth and the efficacy of knowledge. In his fundamental book, Frieder Vogelmann shows what far-reaching consequences this has: for the current debate on falsehoods in politics, for possible forms of social criticism and for philosophy’s reflections on itself and its history.