The Return of the Repressed: Subject, Truth and Critique in Times of Post-Truth

• Published in: Philosophy of the social sciences Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 194 - 222
• Main Authors: Söderberg, Johan, Bjurö, Olle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2023; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: critique; Derrida, Jacques; Description; Foucauldian analysis; foucault; Foucault, Michel; genealogy; Humanism; Ideology; Philosophers; Philosophy; post-truth; Postmodernism; Psychoanalysis; Refusal; science; science wars; Skinner, B F (Burrhus Frederic Skinner) (1904-1990); Social sciences; Social Sciences - Other Topics; Sociologi; Sociology; sts; subject; Truth; ideology; critique; science wars; subject; psychoanalysis; post-truth

The surge of post-truth calls for a reassessment of psychoanalytic and ideology critique-approaches in the social sciences. Both traditions are dismissed by the principal antagonists in the post-truth debate, the “positivist” defenders of science and the “post-modern” critics of science. The antagon...