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Rethinking Pluralism - Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Pluralism - Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity (Hardcover)
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How can we order the world while accepting its enduring
ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the
problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the
default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and
categories to disambiguate). The book argues that alternative, more
particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and
shared experience better attune to contemporary problems of living
with difference. It retrieves key aspects of earlier discussions of
ambiguity evident in rabbinic commentaries, Chinese texts, and
Greek philosophical and dramatic works, and applies those texts to
modern problems. The book is a work of recuperation that challenges
contemporary constructions of tradition and modernity. In this, it
draws on the tradition of pragmatism in American philosophy,
especially John Dewey's injunctions to heed the particular, the
contingent and experienced as opposed to the abstract, general and
disembodied. Only in this way can new forms of empathy emerge
congruent with the deeply plural nature of our present experience.
While we cannot avoid the ambiguities inherent to the categories
through which we construct our world, the book urges us to
reconceptualize the ways in which we think about boundaries - not
just the solid line of notation, but also the permeable membrane of
ritualization and the fractal complexity of shared experience.
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