Abstract

In current public debate as well as in political and epistemological discussion there are polarizations between worldviews that appear to be rigidly opposed, such as: distrust in science vs naive scientism; populism vs technocracy; relativism vs. veritism. The aim of this essay is to show how these oppositions, despite appearing as radically opposed positions, are actually in a dialectical relationship functional to the exclusion of a third pole both epistemological and political. The effects produced by these oppositional pairs is the reproduction of the current distribution of both symbolic and material resources