The Cunning of the Weak, the Saintliness of the Powerful, and Social Critique
Derouet-Besson,
The Cunning of the Weak, the Saintliness of the Powerful, and Social Critique - 2005.
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Critical competence only makes sense in the long term. Prophets used the values of an ideal world to denounce the existing world. The author makes the distinction between two traditions: an academic one, based on Christian neo-Platonism and leading to the illusion theory in which the social world is mere appearance and morality an intelligence driving us on; and the other, based on a series of ethno-methodologies that allow the weak to adapt and mock the failings of the powerful and sometimes use these very failings to overcome power relationships. A conclusion can be drawn from this archaeology: If the critical approach of the ’60s and ’70s is but one aspect of a tradition, the current crisis concerns only this form and new approaches could develop in different circumstances.
The Cunning of the Weak, the Saintliness of the Powerful, and Social Critique - 2005.
31
Critical competence only makes sense in the long term. Prophets used the values of an ideal world to denounce the existing world. The author makes the distinction between two traditions: an academic one, based on Christian neo-Platonism and leading to the illusion theory in which the social world is mere appearance and morality an intelligence driving us on; and the other, based on a series of ethno-methodologies that allow the weak to adapt and mock the failings of the powerful and sometimes use these very failings to overcome power relationships. A conclusion can be drawn from this archaeology: If the critical approach of the ’60s and ’70s is but one aspect of a tradition, the current crisis concerns only this form and new approaches could develop in different circumstances.
Réseaux sociaux