Power, Knowledge, and Anarchism

While Jeffrey Friedman's Power Without Knowledge offers a welcome corrective to the technocratic statism that dominates modern politics, Wittgenstein's view of language suggests that the problem of ideational heterogeneity is less worrisome than Friedman maintains. In addition, Friedman�...

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Published inCritical review (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 32; no. 1-3; pp. 192 - 217
Main Author Reamer, Robert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Astoria Routledge 02.07.2020
Critical Review
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Anarchism
anarchy
Heterogeneity
Politics
Positivism
Power
Statism
Technocracy
Wittgenstein
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Summary:While Jeffrey Friedman's Power Without Knowledge offers a welcome corrective to the technocratic statism that dominates modern politics, Wittgenstein's view of language suggests that the problem of ideational heterogeneity is less worrisome than Friedman maintains. In addition, Friedman's "exitocracy" is as epistemically demanding as ordinary technocracy and thus cannot provide an alternative to it. Anarchism, however, might provide a more consistent alternative to technocracy.
ISSN:0891-3811
1933-8007
DOI:10.1080/08913811.2020.1872946