Author Archives: Michael Schwarz

Dissertation abstract

I develop a novel approach to ideology critique that is centered on linguistic world-disclosure, which describes the fact that we always already access the world through meaning. With linguistic world-disclosure I demonstrate that ideology is not merely a system of belief, but an embodied interpretive schema that impinges on our cognition, affect, and dispositions to act and I explain how ideologies can act as their own truth-makers. Critiquing ideologies, I contend, requires new meanings and concepts – or: new world-disclosures – like that of “sexual harassment” to challenge dominant interpretations and we acquire them through “conceptual labor in company with others” (Mills).