Perfectionism in Practice: Shusterman’s Place in Recent Pragmatism

in Contemporary Pragmatism
Author: Mathias Girel 1
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1 1Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, usr 3608 République des savoirs, France, mathias.girel@ens.fr
Online Publication Date:
16 Jun 2015
Volume/Issue:
Volume 12: Issue 1
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01201009
Keywords:
Shusterman; Rorty; pragmatism; perfectionism; somaesthetics
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Building on recent texts, I give a characterization of Richard Shusterman’s specific variant of pragmatism, understood as a melioristic or perfectionist pragmatism, where ethical and political dimensions are deeply intertwined with the epistemological one. To do so, I focus on what seems to be Shusterman’s latest contribution to his interrupted dialogue with Richard Rorty in Thinking through the Body.

Perfectionism in Practice: Shusterman’s Place in Recent Pragmatism

in Contemporary Pragmatism
E-ISSN:
1875-8185
Print ISSN:
1572-3429
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Brill | Rodopi
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 See for example (Shusterman 199213).

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 (Shusterman 1989a15).

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 (Shusterman 1989a15).

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 (Shusterman 1989c66).

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 (Shusterman 1997a157).

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 (Shusterman 1997a170).

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 (Shusterman 1997b210). The phrase “city of words” is used by Socrates in Plato’s Republic.

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Page Count:
156–179
Subjects:
19th & 20th Century Philosophy, Philosophy
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© 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands 2015

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