The Effectiveness of Knowledge / Die Wirksamkeit des Wissens
A Political Epistemology
On truth and knowledge and the consequences of falsehoods in politics
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...
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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.
2022, 628 pages