Non-Ideal philosophy as methodology
- This article argues that non-ideal theory is distinctive in its use of a certain methodology which is prior to specific topics (such as injustice, oppression, etc.), grounded in the idea of socially situ-ated knowledge, and able to address ideological situatedness. Drawing on standpoint epistemology, we show that one’s social position within given power structures has implications for knowledge acquisition and that being in a vulnerable or marginalised position can be advantageous to knowledge acquisition. Following ideology critique, we argue that both marginalised and powerful social positions are embedded within a given ideology. As ideology is more than a mere set of attitudes or beliefs that social agents endorse or resist, situated agents and theo-rists cannot develop normative criteria that are not themselves situated. Hence, non-ideal theory has to be equipped with methods that are likely to make this situatedness visible. We close by presenting someThis article argues that non-ideal theory is distinctive in its use of a certain methodology which is prior to specific topics (such as injustice, oppression, etc.), grounded in the idea of socially situ-ated knowledge, and able to address ideological situatedness. Drawing on standpoint epistemology, we show that one’s social position within given power structures has implications for knowledge acquisition and that being in a vulnerable or marginalised position can be advantageous to knowledge acquisition. Following ideology critique, we argue that both marginalised and powerful social positions are embedded within a given ideology. As ideology is more than a mere set of attitudes or beliefs that social agents endorse or resist, situated agents and theo-rists cannot develop normative criteria that are not themselves situated. Hence, non-ideal theory has to be equipped with methods that are likely to make this situatedness visible. We close by presenting some diverse methods that already do so.…
Verfasserangaben: | Hilkje Charlotte HänelORCiDGND, Johanna Müller |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2022.6917202 |
ISSN: | 1558-5816 |
ISSN: | 0040-5817 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Theoria : a journal of social and political theory |
Untertitel (Englisch): | the case of feminist philosophy |
Verlag: | Berghahn |
Verlagsort: | Oxford |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 01.09.2022 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 30.09.2022 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | critical theory; feminist standpoint theory; ideology cri-tique; non-ideal theory; social epistemology; standpoint epistemology |
Band: | 69 |
Ausgabe: | 3 |
Seitenanzahl: | 27 |
Erste Seite: | 32 |
Letzte Seite: | 59 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |