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Inquiry and Democracy in Contemporary Pragmatism

Matthew Festenstein

出版	SSRN, 2016
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dxD-zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

One of the most powerful, elusive and contentious themes in the 'resurgence of pragmatism' has been the question of the political implications, if any, carried by the doctrine. On the one hand, he thought that, as the intellectual historian James Kloppenberg has put it, democracy is the form of social life 'uniquely consistent with pragmatism' (Kloppenberg 1996:130) has constituted an article of faith for many of its proponents. On the other hand, pragmatism has been so frequently identified with a purely sceptical approach toward 'foundations' in political argument as to make this belief incomprehensible (cf. Kloppenberg 1996:124-5). The purpose of this essay is to explore three different approaches to relating the pragmatist conception of inquiry to democratic political values, in the work of Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Cheryl Misak.