willow: "Diagnosis combines phenomenological and genealogical elements in order to produce local, practical knowledge about and for a specific context. This diagnosis is oriented toward (identifying) problems and hopes to provide some orientation for how to address these problems."

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Diagnosis combines phenomenological and genealogical elements in order to produce local, practical knowledge about and for a specific context. This diagnosis is oriented toward (identifying) problems and hopes to provide some orientation for how to address these problems.

December 30, 2024 at 9:05 PM

willowDec 30, 2024

Janosch Prinz, Radicalizing Realism in Political Theory, pg 139
(OP post quote is on pg 110)

The questioning and interrogating critique in question here oscillates between immanent and negativistic forms of critique on the one hand and dissociating forms of critique on the other.19 Immanent and negativistic forms of critique are important as questioning and interrogating critique starts from within an already ongoing process specific to a historical political context. It intervenes into this process through the diagnosis of problems and their further problematization and then tries to build conceptual resources for evaluating and overcoming these problems. Dissociating forms of critique proceed from a similar starting position and share a negativistic perspective. However, here the diagnosis is used to contribute to the goal of dissociating oneself as much as possible from one’s context without abstracting from the contingencies that characterize this context. Importantly, the latter understanding of critique also does not draw on some kind of developmental model – of rationality or of problem-solving capacities – which is common to forms of immanent critique. For this form of critique the suspension of judgment is already an achievement, the further consequences of which cannot be determined by the critique itself (see also Foucault 1984: 68).

Foucault 1984 is: 'Du pouvoir' In: L’Express 1722 (6-12 July 1984): 56-68. Or for the English translation: 'On Power' Politics, Philosophy, Culture Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, 96-110.

Footnote 19: I view this as an expansion of my development of Geuss’ modifications of early Critical Theory. If one wants to use labels one could see the former as a Hegelian-Frankfurt School line and the latter a Nietzschean-Foucauldian line. A connection of these lines consists in their emphasis on the importance of diagnosis for political thought (Sluga 2011: 830).

willowDec 30, 2024

i love that i can just shove so much shit into alt text, it actually makes sending images not on bsky so much more irritating