Working With Those Who Think Otherwise

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ID3850142
AuthorsHelen Verran (0000-0001-5745-4888, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume20
Issue3
Pages527-539
Publication date2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommon Knowledge (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-754X • E-ISSN: 1538-4578
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/0961754x-2733075
OpenAlexW1997413286
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited4

This essay is one of three published in response to Casper Bruun Jensen's article "Experiments in Good Faith and Hopefulness: Toward a Postcritical Social Science" (Common Knowledge 20, no. 2 [Spring 2014]: 337 - 62), which concerns the "postcritical" work of Helen Verran, Richard Rottenburg, and Hirokazu Miyazaki. Verran's response clarifies the stance that she takes in her work, and especially in her book Science and an African Logic (2001), toward critique. Here she argues that critique involves grasping the difference between entities in the here-and-now, while conventional analysis in the social sciences explains away difference in the here-and-now by relocating it to an ideal realm. She explains that the method she has developed is a form of infra critique - a way of "doing difference" that keeps it present, particular, and localized. Her essay concludes that the shift to infra critique requires that the "good faith analyst" make her own ontological commitments explicit and accept responsibility for making judgments

Epistemology · Faith · Hopefulness · Ideal (ethics · Political science · Realm · Sociology · Work (physics · African cultural and philosophical studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology

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