The double bind of the intellectual

toward a hermeneutics of skepticism

Zahi Zalloua

pp. 161-173

in: Peter Hitchcock (ed), The new public intellectual, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Abstract

These three masters of suspicion [Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud] are not to be misunderstood, however, as three masters of skepticism. They are, assuredly, three great “destroyers.” But that of itself should not mislead us … All three clear the horizon for a more authentic word, for a new reign of Truth, not only by means of a “destructive” critique, but by the invention of an art of interpreting.4

Cited authors

Nietzsche Friedrich

Marx Karl

Freud Sigmund