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From: chrsowen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chris Owen)
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:09:09 +0800
>Epistemic or epistemological violence: dragging the discourse/language
>game/phrase universe of the Other across another one that it should not
>be held responsible for in order to clobber it. Example: when an
>Enlightenment spokesperson calls a post-structuralist a RELATIVIST in
>order to dismiss her, this is epistemic violence. Because the
>post-structuralist does not recognize the distinction between the
>'absolute' and the 'relative.' For her, there is nothing BUT the
>relative, and the question is about how to go about negotiating it
>ethically.
Pardon? "Nothing but the relative?" How can one negotiate ethically then?