Perfectionism in Practice: Shusterman’s Place in Recent Pragmatism
In: Contemporary PragmatismBuilding 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.
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(James 1978, 146).
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(Rorty 1982, xviii).
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(Rorty 1982, xviii).
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See for example (Shusterman 1992, 13).
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(Shusterman 1989a, 15).
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(Shusterman 1989a, 15).
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(Shusterman 1989c, 66).
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(Dewey and Boydston 1981, vol. 10, 10–12).
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(Shusterman 1994a, 148).
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(James and Kuklick 1988, 783).
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(Brandom 2000, 205–206, n.7).
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(Brandom 2004, 15).
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(Shusterman 1997a, 157).
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(Shusterman 1997a, 170).
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See Shusterman, “A Philosopher in Darkness and in Light. Practical Somaesthetics and Photographic Art,” Lucidity. Inward Views : Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2011. Anne-Marie Ninacs (ed.) Montreal : Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 2011.
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(Wiener 1973, 553).
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(Thayer 1981, 431).
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(James, Bowers, and Skrupskelis 1978, Preface).
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(Shusterman 2010a, 80).
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(Shusterman 1997b, 210). The phrase “city of words” is used by Socrates in Plato’s Republic.
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Perfectionism in Practice: Shusterman’s Place in Recent Pragmatism
In: Contemporary PragmatismBuilding 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.
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