Rik Ouwerkerk
Biographic Data
| ID | 9338596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rik Ouwerkerk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rik |
| FAMILY NAME | Ouwerkerk |
| SIGNATURE | OUWERKERK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Philosophy KU Leuven Leuven Belgium |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0845-5726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Second‐Order Disorders” as Pathologies of Reason or Pathologies of Critique? Conceptualizing Critical Theory's Emancipatory Potential
Although it carries the stench of biological essentialism and traces its roots to social Darwinism, the diagnosis of social pathologies is conspicuously pervasive in contemporary critical theory. Why do critical theorists like talking about society through medical analogies? Part of the lasting appeal seems to lie in the fact that those terminologies allow for a sensitivity to the limits of both purely social-theoretical and merely normative anal…
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“Second‐Order Disorders” as Pathologies of Reason or Pathologies of Critique? Conceptualizing Critical Theory's Emancipatory Potential
Although it carries the stench of biological essentialism and traces its roots to social Darwinism, the diagnosis of social pathologies is conspicuously pervasive in contemporary critical theory. Why do critical theorists like talking about society through medical analogies? Part of the lasting appeal seems to lie in the fact that those terminologies allow for a sensitivity to the limits of both purely social-theoretical and merely normative anal…
Appeal (1 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (1 works) · Critical theory (1 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (1 works) · Criticism (1 works) · Economic and Social Issues (1 works) · Essentialism (1 works) · Normative (1 works) · Social change (1 works) · Social structure (1 works)