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In the post-positivist era in which Cartesian epistemology must be overcome we require a normative criterion of truth. Without it rationality of our beliefs and justifiability of our political acts are in question. This study seeks an epistemological criterion of truth that is attentive to the sociopolitical conditions that determine meaning
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A politically emancipatory action proceeds in the name of truth, not interests, power or domination. It is only through this activity that human beings' freedom exists. In the post-positivist era, in which the reified subject-object dichotomy must be overcome, we require a normative criterion of truth. Without it, the rationality of our beliefs and the justifiability of our political acts are both in question. Political epistemology is a research project that investigates how politics frames questions of knowledge. As a strategic activity to make the production of truth meaningful, ethically valuable, and politically emancipatory, it promotes a new understanding of the connection between political engagement and epistemic normativity.
The present volume argues that despite their important differences, Karl Marx, Theodore Adorno, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida share a political understanding of knowledge and normativity.
