Knowledge and Ideology: The Epistemology of Soc. Morris<|

Knowledge and IdeologyThe Epistemology of Social and Political Critique\nAuthor(s): Michael Morris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316630327, 978-1316630327\nSynopsis\nIdeology critique generally seeks to undermine selected theories and beliefs by demonstrating their partisan origins and their insidious social functions. This approach rightly reveals the socially implicated nature of much purported knowledge, but also brackets or bypasses its cognitive properties. In contrast, Michael Morris argues that it is possible to integrate the social and epistemic dimensions of belief in a way that preserves the cognitive and adjudicatory capacities of reason, while acknowledging that reason itself is inevitably social, historical, and interested. Drawing upon insights from Hegel, Lukcs, Mannheim, and Habermas, he interprets and reconstructs Marx's critique of ideology as a positive theory of knowledg.