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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 39-57 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Philosophy and Social Criticism |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2012 |
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Revolution, Rupture, Rhetoric. / Fleming, Chris; O'Carroll, John.
In: Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 38, No. 1, 02.2012, p. 39-57.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Revolution, Rupture, Rhetoric
AU - Fleming, Chris
AU - O'Carroll, John
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: month (773h) = February, 2012; Journal title (773t) = Philosophy and Social Criticism. ISSNs: 0191-4537;
PY - 2012/2
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N2 - This article traces certain rhetorics of knowledge-change as well as a few models of such change. Inparticular, it focuses on models that emphasize novelty and sudden transformation. To this end,the works of Thomas Kuhn, and the debates surrounding his celebrated modeling of the paradigm,are explored. Having established ' at least in an illustrative fashion ' the role of novelty in Kuhn'sphilosophy of science, we then look more briefly at the mid-career work of Michel Foucault (hisOrder of Things and the Archaeology of Knowledge), and the debate between Ju¨rgen Habermas andJean-Franc¸ois Lyotard to find (in Foucault's case) analogies with the earlier models and debatessurrounding Popper and Kuhn, and then (in the Habermas/Lyotard discussion), to see how revolutionaryand reactionary status count in assigning value to models of knowledge. In all these inquiries,we seek less to criticize particular theorists (that has already been done) than to understand adominant strand of understanding of knowledge and knowledge-change in the contemporaryacademy.
AB - This article traces certain rhetorics of knowledge-change as well as a few models of such change. Inparticular, it focuses on models that emphasize novelty and sudden transformation. To this end,the works of Thomas Kuhn, and the debates surrounding his celebrated modeling of the paradigm,are explored. Having established ' at least in an illustrative fashion ' the role of novelty in Kuhn'sphilosophy of science, we then look more briefly at the mid-career work of Michel Foucault (hisOrder of Things and the Archaeology of Knowledge), and the debate between Ju¨rgen Habermas andJean-Franc¸ois Lyotard to find (in Foucault's case) analogies with the earlier models and debatessurrounding Popper and Kuhn, and then (in the Habermas/Lyotard discussion), to see how revolutionaryand reactionary status count in assigning value to models of knowledge. In all these inquiries,we seek less to criticize particular theorists (that has already been done) than to understand adominant strand of understanding of knowledge and knowledge-change in the contemporaryacademy.
KW - Open access version available
KW - Foucault
KW - Habermas
KW - Kuhn
KW - Lyotard
KW - Popper
KW - Revolution
KW - Spistemology
U2 - 10.1177/0191453711421603
DO - 10.1177/0191453711421603
M3 - Article
VL - 38
SP - 39
EP - 57
JO - Philosophy and Social Criticism
JF - Philosophy and Social Criticism
SN - 0191-4537
IS - 1
ER -