Open AccessWissen und Macht statt Ideologie und Interesse
Author(s) -
Jürgen Link
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v38i152.464
Subject(s) - ideology , epistemology , situated , philosophy , criticism , materiality (auditing) , reading (process) , realism , context (archaeology) , sociology , aesthetics , politics , literature , linguistics , history , law , political science , art , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science
The paper considers, in its first part, Foucault's earlier epistemological critique of Marx ("lack of an epistemological incision", "empirico-trancendental doublet", "naive realism"). In this context, the complex of "ideology" is considered from a discourse theoretical point of view. It is argued that a clear insight into the materiality of discourses and of subjectivizations is actually lacking in Marx. Within the second part of the paper, a sort of change of direction of the criticism is suggested: It seems evident that Foucault's way of reading Marx, before 1968, proves superficial and blind towards the crucial epistemological innovations which are characterized as "cyclological" and situated within a logic of reproduction, going beyond the dichotomy of the "empiricotranscentental doublet".