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Articles | Volume 74, issue 2
Articles | Volume 74, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-193-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-193-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 74, issue 2
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14 Jun 2019
Standard article |  | 14 Jun 2019

Schwierigkeiten mit der kritischen Geographie

Benedikt Korf

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This paper critically examines critical geography’s moralizing high ground. The paper makes this critique through a detour via the analyse of the critical gesture of the Greek cynics that the philosophers Foucault and Sloterdijk take to be a political practice of provocative truth-telling: For Foucault and Sloterdijk, the cynics are anti-dogmatic, anti-theoretical and anti-scholastic. I will argue, however, that the cynic is in danger of speaking from the moral high ground of an anti-critique.
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