Pragmatism and Democracy in a Global World

Frega, Roberto

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“…As with the experimentalist argument, the formative argument extends beyond what is seen as a narrowly political conception of democracy to regard it is an ideal that should shape other social habitats, including, particularly in recent arguments, the workplace (e.g. Frega, 2019; Jackson, 2018; Renault, 2017). In this way too, Deweyan pragmatist arguments have provided resources for current thinking in democratic theory.…”

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“…Aboulafia et al, 2002; Bernstein, 1986; Bernstein, 2010; Festenstein, 2001; Honneth, 1998a) – recent critical theory (e.g. Festl, 2020; Frega, 2019; Gregoratto, 2017; Renault, 2017; Särkelä, 2017; Serrano Zamora, 2021; Serrano Zamora and Santarelli, 2020; Testa, 2017) has incorporated these arguments into its immanent criticisms of the social pathologies (both terms Dewey himself uses, as it happens) of contemporary capitalism, in effect reading Dewey through a critical theory lens. At the philosophical core of this tradition, Axel Honneth (Honneth, 1998a, 1998b, 2014) has particularly drawn on the formative argument to develop his account of social freedom and democracy while Rahel Jaeggi's influential account of the critique of forms of life draws on a Deweyan account of forms of life and their criticism as experimental problem-solving (Jaeggi, 2018: 318).…”

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Spotlight: Pragmatism in contemporary political theory

Festenstein

2021

European Journal of Political Theory

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This article surveys recent work in pragmatism and political theory. In doing so, it shows both how recent work on pragmatism has secured the view that at its core is a set of arguments about the character of democracy – although the character of those arguments is open to debate and reimagination – and how pragmatist arguments have been reinterpreted and deployed to address contemporary concerns and approaches. This charts a terrain of live disagreements rather than settled opinion.

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Section: Pragmatism In the Conversation Of Contemporary Political Theorymentioning

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Spotlight: Pragmatism in contemporary political theory

Festenstein

2021

European Journal of Political Theory

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“…The public is thus best understood 'as an evolving set of practices rather than as a bounded sphere, state-based authority or natural set of goods' (Best and Gheciu, 2014: 8). Publics are then also always plural, issue-specific and cannot be neatly mapped onto the idea of a national society (Brem-Wilson, 2017;Frega, 2017;Porter, 2014). As I will argue below, we need to take this insight one step further by trying to disentangle the notion of publics from any kind of state politics, and indeed by emphasizing its potential for challenging these very same political categories.…”

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Public relations: Theorizing the contestation of security technology

Monsees

2019

Security Dialogue

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This article contributes to the emerging literature on publics within critical security studies. Its particular focus is on contestation in the context of diffuse security technology. Contemporary security practices are characterized by diffusion and dispersion. As a result, contestation of security technology is also dispersed and diffuse and requires an account of publics that is sensitive to this aspect. The article conceptualizes ‘multiple publics’ as a mode of fundamental contestation of established political institutions. In order to do so, it discusses previous approaches to sociotechnical controversies and material participation. As a result of this discussion, it becomes apparent that we need a concept of publics that does not reduce political contestation to a pre-existing set of institutions. I develop a notion of publicness that emphasizes the way in which publics are embedded in societal struggles. This is achieved by reading John Dewey as a theorist to whom contestation is a vital part of democracy. It becomes possible to understand contestation against diffuse security practices – such as surveillance – as forms of emerging publics, even though they might not feed back into governmental decisionmaking.

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Pragmatism and Democracy in a Global World

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