Zuviel Wissen? Zur Wertschätzung von Arbeit und Wissenin der Moderne. Erkundungen zur Legitimirbarkeit sozialpolitischer Maßnahmen in Zeiten des Wissens

Subsequent to earlier discussed suggestions about solving current labor market problems by partially detaching incomes from work (cf. Füllsack 2002), the study in hand endeavors to investigate the possibilities to legitimize social-philosophical and social-political measurements in "modern knowledge-societies". It thereby assumes that "knowledge-societies" are essentially characterized by permanented and sufficiently stabile institutionalized scruntinizing mechanisms (science, journalism etc.) which in principial put every kind of knowledge up for discussion, and in particular they do so with values like freedom, justice, solidarity etc. that pre-modern societies used to legitimate their distribution orders with. In other words, the study in hand assumes that members of knowledge-societies can know that their values as well as their evaluation of work and knowledgement and their decisions for or against certain distribution orders are dependent on nothing else than knowledge (i.e. fore- knowledge). In rgard to this assumption, the study in hand investigations as well as contemporary aspects of the conditions of the possibility to "stabilize" knowledge in a way that allows to legitimize social-political measurements although this knowledge is permanently put to the test by scientific, journalistic and other scrutiny. The study thereby concludes that an essential characteristic of current knowledge procession can be characterized as a permanent oscillation between knowledge and not-knowledge (ignorance), a demanding and permanented veiling and unveiling of knowledge so to say, that gives reason to a profound change in the way modern society looks at the productivity of its work. Employing the term "post-productivity", the study tries to mark this change as a possible base for "de-ontologically" "postmetaphysically" legitimating the detachment of incomes from work.