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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009 by the
- ISSN
- 1210-3055
- eISSN
- 1337-401X
- DOI
- 10.2478/v10023-009-0017-9
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Abstract
Back to the Concrete: A Pragmatist Response to Oppression Pragmatism is a vital tool for society today, both because it addresses our more pressing social problems and because it advances beyond other available solutions. As a good deal of recent European philosophy has shown, as in the cases of Adorno and Agamben, for example, our social life is mediated by abstractions that oppress us. With its focus on the immediacy of experience, pragmatism enables us to overcome these abstractions and return to concrete life in a liberating way. I argue against Agamben, however, that the return to concrete life amounts to anarchism. I show that it leads to liberalism instead, along the lines laid out by Dewey in Liberalism and Social Action , in which freed individuality is compatible with the exercise of social intelligence and planning.
Journal
Human Affairs – de Gruyter
Published: Jun 1, 2009