From Intellectual Poker to Open Debate - A More Fundamental Issue With Scholactivism Mayer, Benoit Author aut Text xx# 2022 Verfassungsblog 2022-08-23 eng
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 Tarunabh Khaitan’s editorial in the International Journal of Constitutional Law presents insightful remarks about the risk that scholactivism may fail both as scholarship and as activism. I largely share Khaitan’s discomfort with scholactivism, which confuses two different goals: advancing human knowledge and advancing a political goal. However, I wonder whether the instrumentalist argument that Khaitan develops is really the decisive one. In this blog, I present some doubts about this instrumentalist argument before suggesting another line of argument, based on the intrinsic nature of academic research. CC BY-SA 4.0 Mayer, Benoit Activism Scholarship 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/from-intellectual-poker-to-open-debate/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20220823-181803-0 220823 10.17176/20220823-181803-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)