citation_author
Tsekeris, Charalambos
citation_volume
7
citation_author
Katrivesis, Nicos
citation_publication_date
2009
citation_title
Ethical Reflexivity and Epistemological Weakness
citation_pdf_url
https://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/system/files/7-200-1-PB.pdf
citation_issue
3
citation_journal_title
Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
citation_issn
1532-5555
citation_firstpage
26
citation_lastpage
32
dcterms.title
Ethical Reflexivity and Epistemological Weakness
dcterms.creator
Tsekeris
dcterms.subject
reflexivity, science, epistemology, ethics, social theory
dcterms.description
It is customary to promiscuously interconnect the well-established methodological conception of sociological reflexivity to multi-level metatheoretical analyses, representational tactics and strategies, self-conscious knowledge-production processes and, in general, epistemological questions and answers. However, Western reflexive thinking about culture, rationality, and scientific knowledge often tends to (somehow) reproduce the self-assured “one epistemological size fits all” standpoint of Eurocentrism, to arrogantly exclude alternative post-colonial theorizations and to implicitly ignore the irreducibility of the “ethical dimension”. The “reinvention” of this crucial dimension, within contemporary sociology and critical organizational research, entails the substantial incorporation of the “weak” performative circular reasoning as well as a new reflexive ethos and aesthetic of scientific modesty. The issue here is indeed the fruitful pluralist maximization of both ethical and cognitive possibilities. In this respect, the innovative “it could be otherwise” clause of radical intellectual inquiry remains central to our inter-disciplinary world- and self-accounts.
dcterms.contributor
Tsekeris
dcterms.date
2009
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Text
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text/html
dcterms.identifier
https://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/pub/6509
dcterms.abstract
It is customary to promiscuously interconnect the well-established methodological conception of sociological reflexivity to multi-level metatheoretical analyses, representational tactics and strategies, self-conscious knowledge-production processes and, in general, epistemological questions and answers. However, Western reflexive thinking about culture, rationality, and scientific knowledge often tends to (somehow) reproduce the self-assured “one epistemological size fits all” standpoint of Eurocentrism, to arrogantly exclude alternative post-colonial theorizations and to implicitly ignore the irreducibility of the “ethical dimension”. The “reinvention” of this crucial dimension, within contemporary sociology and critical organizational research, entails the substantial incorporation of the “weak” performative circular reasoning as well as a new reflexive ethos and aesthetic of scientific modesty. The issue here is indeed the fruitful pluralist maximization of both ethical and cognitive possibilities. In this respect, the innovative “it could be otherwise” clause of radical intellectual inquiry remains central to our inter-disciplinary world- and self-accounts.
dcterms.language
en
dcterms.modified
2021-10-26T08:14+02:00