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Critical Friendship After the Pandemic
Get PDFAre critique and the “art of governing” antithetical? The aim of this article is to examine this tension that was laid bare by the Covid-19 pandemic by introducing “critical friendship” as a conceptual framework for a constructive interdisciplinary engagement with science in a post-pandemic era. It does so by drawing on several works and insights: (i) Michel Foucault’s notion of “critical attitude” as well as his assessment of philosophy as providing a “diagnosis of the present;” (ii) Bruno Latour and colleagues’ idea of a “critical zone” or what I call a horizontal epistemology of critique; (iii) Aristotle’s notion of friendship as being necessary for the “common good;” and finally (iv) Jacques Derrida’s interpretation of the messianic character of friendship in the constitution of progressive democracies. Whereas critical theory has been described as either “explanatory-diagnostic” or “emancipatory-utopian,” a critical friendship approach aims to be both diagnostic and emancipatory in an age of uncertainty and democratic backsliding
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No full textDette nummer af Dansk Sociologi er det første i 2022 og indvarsler dermed ikke kun et nyt år, men også en ny tid for tidsskriftet, idet vi fremover udkommer med tre numre om året i stedet for som hidtil fire. Ændringen sker for at sikre en bedre balance imellem økonomi og volumen. Kvaliteten og antallet af årlige artikler bliver således, som I kender det, blot fordelt over færre numre