Neil Turnbull
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This paper examines the way in which ‘authority’ and ‘authoritarianism’ have been confl ated in contemporary philosophical thought. More specifi cally, it will show how the psycho-social critique of political authority developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s established a paradigm for the critique of political authority as ‘authoritarian irrationalism’. The paper goes on to explore the limitations of this paradigm in the contemporary era, where political authority has been largely supplanted by the epistemic and ontological authority of techno-science (that contemporary liberalism uses in order to “present itself” as a system without any dominant mode of political authority). The paper will conclude with a plea for contemporary philosophers to recognise the signifi cance of the ‘authority of the good’ as means for ensuring more sustainable and convivial modes of techno-scientifi c development.
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