Mixing metaphors: Politics or economics of knowledge?

Theory and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 685-717

  Pels, Dick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 21944432863     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006804130899     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. "It was Nietzsche who specified the power relation as the general focus ... of philosophical discourse - whereas for Marx it was the production relation" (Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, ed. Colin Gordon (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 53).
2. The epistemological coincidence of truth-oriented, cognitive interest (Dutch: belang-stelling) and strategic interest (Dutch: belang) is far better captured by the English interest or the French intérêt/intéressement than by the Dutch adjective belang-rijk.
3. Dick Pels, Macht of eigendom? Een kwestie van intellectuele revaliteit (Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1987);
4. Property or Power? A Study in Intellectual Rivalry, revised English edition (forthcoming New York: Guilford Press).
5. Cf. Anton Hemerijck, "De politiek van de economie," Beleid & Maatschappij 5 (1994): 229-245;
6. Ralph Miliband, "Introduction," in idem, editor, Reinventing the Left (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994): 8ff.
7. Cf. Nico Stehr, Knowledge Societies (London: Sage, 1994), passim.