@article {6509,
	title = {Ethical Reflexivity and Epistemological Weakness},
	journal = {Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009},
	pages = {26-32},
	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 {\textquotedblleft}one epistemological size fits all{\textquotedblright} standpoint of Eurocentrism, to arrogantly exclude alternative post-colonial theorizations and to implicitly ignore the irreducibility of the {\textquotedblleft}ethical dimension{\textquotedblright}. The {\textquotedblleft}reinvention{\textquotedblright} of this crucial dimension, within contemporary sociology and critical organizational research, entails the substantial incorporation of the {\textquotedblleft}weak{\textquotedblright} 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 {\textquotedblleft}it could be otherwise{\textquotedblright} clause of radical intellectual inquiry remains central to our inter-disciplinary world- and self-accounts.},
	issn = {1532-5555}
}
