"Hence the “impasse”: if knowledge is power, the instance that must produce emancipation, i.e. knowledge, is at the same time the instance that produces subordination and domination. And that is why, with yet another somersault, radical emancipation can only be achieved through non-knowledge, through a return to myth and fairy tales. Emancipation, thus, goes round in circles. For the sake of truth and reality, truth and reality are renounced: this is the meaning of the “crisis of the grand narratives” of the legitimisation of knowledge. (p. 101)"
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Maurizio Ferraris
Maurizio Ferraris (7 February 1956) is an Italian continental philosopher and scholar, whose name is associated especially with the philosophical current named "new realism"—Ferraris wrote the Manifesto of New Realism in 2012, which was published in 2014)—which shares significant similarities with speculative realism and object oriented ontology.
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