Filozofija i drustvo 2021 Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages: 11-21
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2101011I
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Theory caught up in dialectics: Some reflections on Asger Sørensen’s capitalism, alienation and critique
Ivković Marjan (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), ivkovic@ instifdt.bg.ac.rs
Prodanović Srđan (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), sprodanovic@instifdt.bg.ac.rs
Urošević Milan (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), urosevic@instifdt.bg.ac.rs
This paper presents three interconnected examinations of Asger Sørensen’s
arguments in Capitalism, Alienation and Critique, which thematize Sørensen’s
overarching understanding of the relationship between theory and practice:
his general methodological perspective on critical theory, its distinctive
epistemology and its anchoring in the empirical world. The paper authors
each try to push Sørensen on these crucial points by considering how
Sørensen’s variant of critical theory actually operates, scrutinizing in
more detail the particular relationship between the ‘experience of
injustice’, which for Sørensen constitutes the empirical foothold for
critical theory, and the theoretical diagnosis of social reality which the
critical theorist should formulate against the backdrop of this experience.
Keywords: dialectics, determinate negation, Foucault, Degrowth, Bataille