Activity, Labour, and Praxis: An Outline for a Critique of Epistemology

0520737 - FLÚ 2020 GB eng J - Journal Article
Azeri, Siyaves
Activity, Labour, and Praxis: An Outline for a Critique of Epistemology.
Critique: a journal of socialist theory. Roč. 47, č. 4 (2019), s. 585-602. ISSN 0301-7605
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) FJD3-0009-1702
Program: Fellowship Josefa Dobrovského
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Labour * activity * knowledge * relations of production * capital
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Method of publishing: Limited access

This article aims at analysing the relation between academic-scientific knowledge-production, scientific labour, and capital. Scientific knowledge-production is a specific form of activity, that is, the metabolic material exchange between human and the social environment, which is irreducible to forming a trans-historically universal Weltanschauung. Knowledge- production is always tool-mediated and the tools are historically determined. The limits of scientific knowledge are thus determined with the specific tools of knowledge-production and the rules and forms of labour dictated by the deployment of these tools, which, in turn, are constituted in response to socially determined needs and questions in the face of the historically specific modes of production – in particular capitalism.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0305408