The woke discourse today is confusing because it appeals to emotions traditional to the Left: empathy for the marginalised, indignation at the plight of the oppressed, determination that historical wrongs can be righted. Those emotions, however, are derailed by a range of theoretical assumptions — usually expressed as self-evident truths — that ultimately undermine them.Så här skriver Neiman om vad det är från konservatismen som woke-människorna har tagit fasta på:
https://unherd.com/2023/03/the-true-left-is-not-woke/
Which do you find more essential: the accidents we are born with, or the principles we consider and uphold? Traditionally, it was the Right who focused on the first, and the Left who emphasised the second. This tradition has been inverted. It's not surprising, then, that theories held by the woke undermine their empathetic emotions and emancipatory intentions. Those theories not only have strong reactionary roots; some of their authors were outright Nazis. Ideas influenced by Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger and their epigones take up plenty of room on the progressive syllabus.Konservativa har hela tiden förkastat upplysningsfilosoferna och använde länge "philosophe" som ett rent skällsord, ungefär motsvarande "floskelmaskin" eller "godhetsapostel" i dagens jargong.
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[Schmitt och Heidegger-epigonen Michel Foucault] rejected the idea of universal humanity and the distinction between power and justice, along with a deep scepticism towards any idea of progress. What makes them interesting to progressive thinkers today is their commitment to unmasking liberal hypocrisies. Schmitt was particularly scorching about British imperialism, and American commitment to the Monroe Doctrine; both, he argued, used pieties about humanity and civilisation to disguise naked piracy.
https://unherd.com/2023/03/the-true-left-is-not-woke/
The woke discourse today is confusing because it appeals to emotions traditional to the Left: empathy for the marginalised, indignation at the plight of the oppressed, determination that historical wrongs can be righted. Those emotions, however, are derailed by a range of theoretical assumptions — usually expressed as self-evident truths — that ultimately undermine them.Så här skriver Neiman om vad det är från konservatismen som woke-människorna har tagit fasta på:
https://unherd.com/2023/03/the-true-left-is-not-woke/
Which do you find more essential: the accidents we are born with, or the principles we consider and uphold? Traditionally, it was the Right who focused on the first, and the Left who emphasised the second. This tradition has been inverted. It's not surprising, then, that theories held by the woke undermine their empathetic emotions and emancipatory intentions. Those theories not only have strong reactionary roots; some of their authors were outright Nazis. Ideas influenced by Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger and their epigones take up plenty of room on the progressive syllabus.Konservativa har hela tiden förkastat upplysningsfilosoferna och använde länge "philosophe" som ett rent skällsord, ungefär motsvarande "floskelmaskin" eller "godhetsapostel" i dagens jargong.
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[Schmitt och Heidegger-epigonen Michel Foucault] rejected the idea of universal humanity and the distinction between power and justice, along with a deep scepticism towards any idea of progress. What makes them interesting to progressive thinkers today is their commitment to unmasking liberal hypocrisies. Schmitt was particularly scorching about British imperialism, and American commitment to the Monroe Doctrine; both, he argued, used pieties about humanity and civilisation to disguise naked piracy.
https://unherd.com/2023/03/the-true-left-is-not-woke/
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