Frieder Vogelmann

How do we view Michel Foucault today? How might we assess the impact of his widely read and much-criticised work in the present day? While his oeuvre is viewed as canonical for the humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences, his thought is regularly blamed with leading to some of the irrational aberrations and relativist dead ends of contemporary thought.

In their astute...

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...