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School of Doubt

Author(s): Igor Cvejić, Đorđe Hristov, Predrag Krstić, Andrea Perunović
Subject(s): Philosophy, Marxism, Hermeneutics
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: School of Doubt; Interpretation Strategy; Radical Critique; Hermeneutics; Demystification; Genealogy of Morals; Ideology Theory; Unconscious Interpretation
Summary/Abstract: "School of doubt" is a phrase of Paul Ricoeur, by which he means a type or strategy of interpretation that applies doubt and "reduces the illusions and lies of consciousness". As its "masters" and "teachers", he names three thinkers, "seemingly incompatible with each other": Marx (Karl Marx), Nietzsche (Friedrich Nietzsche) and Freud (Sigmund Freud). Namely, in their always different applications of doubt, there is no single method of demystification, but their commonality is reflected, according to Riker, in a radical opposition to "the phenomenology of the sacred and the whole hermeneutics, understood as gathering meaning and as the memory of being" (Riker 2010: 42-43, 45). According to this interpretation, the great interpreters share, albeit in different registers, the same "intention" or "decision" — to "first consider consciousness as a whole as a 'false' consciousness", to get to the heart of the Cartesian fortress of consciousness, which remains unsuspected while doubting in all the things that are shown to her, she introduces doubt: "After doubting the thing, we moved on to doubting consciousness" (Riker 2010: 43).

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