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Outline of a New Liberalism - Pragmatism and the Stigmatized Other (Hardcover)
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Outline of a New Liberalism - Pragmatism and the Stigmatized Other (Hardcover)
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This book is revolutionary in intent, and is in many ways quite an
uncommon work. It is iconoclastic, as it goes about dislodging
roots. It attempts to release the stigmatized Other from entrapment
by rationalism and modern liberalism. The stigmatized Other are
legendarily marginalized from congenial social relations with
mainstream society. They include peoples of color, women, gays and
lesbians, among others. Entrapment through misrecognition is
captured via marked contrasts existing between two major liberal
configurations: modern liberalism and pragmatism. Accordingly the
book is tasked with overcoming the systemic constraints placed upon
the stigmatized Other to conform when such a demand runs
disastrously counter to their inherently irrefragable
self-definition. Conformity is reductionist, beholden to dyadic
forms of thinking which impose a singular, mathematically-derived
God's Eye View upon reality. The difficulty here is that the
imposed criteria for giving meaning, value and purpose to human
life, have no place for what the stigmatized Other adopts. On the
other hand, pragmatism of a particular stripe establishes a
naturalistic, instead of the mathematical basis, for our
understanding of human life. Naturalism counsels that human beings
should situate themselves directly in the midst of what constitutes
their sense of life, with experience providing the bases for all
the related determinations. Experience draws upon conditions of
flux and uncertainty as the basis of human life. To adhere to the
God's Eye View is to make human beings into 'desiccated calculating
machines.' This book is located in the heart of this tension.
Programmatically, it deconstructs the rationalism/modern liberalism
combine, and constructs its replacement in pragmatism complemented
by phronesis, as carriers of this alternative mode of thought.
Consequential change emerges: a modern liberal world of fixity in
social relations, mathematically-derived is displaced by one
characterized by intersubjective relations, where lived experience
forms its scientific and philosophical bases. The Ancients figure
prominently in this book, as it is shaped around the central idea
that the emancipation of the stigmatized Other is occurring in the
context of perhaps the first engagement between the Platonic and
the Protagorean (Sophistic) confrontation which lies at the heart
of early Greek thought.
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