Synopsis
A dense critical-theory work arguing that all knowledge is guided by underlying human interests, and that emancipatory inquiry differs from technical and interpretive knowing.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workThere is no neutral, interest-free knowledge; even science is shaped by the human purposes that drive inquiry.
It challenges the idea of detached objectivity and opens space for a critical, emancipatory social science.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish.
Reading note
Demanding and abstract; read with patience and a guide to the Frankfurt School tradition.
Best paired with
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish