Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 24 No. 2, 2009.
Original scientific paper
In dialogue for democracy. R. M. Unger’s Pragmatist Vision of Democratic Experimentalism and Explorations of Democracy in Luce Irigaray
Lenart Škof
orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-3550
; University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper, Slovenia
Abstract
The paper focuses on R. M. Unger’s pragmatist vision of democratic experimentalism and its possible application to the area of contemporary intercultural philosophy. The paper connects the field of American pragmatism’s political and social thought (Dewey, Rorty, Unger) with the contemporary pressing issues of intercultural philosophy. In the second part, Unger’s philosophy is put into a dialogue with the philosophy of Luce Irigaray, thus opening a new platform for the ethico-political vision of democracy in the era of globalization. The analysis of the democratic experimentalism therefore states itself as an alternative project of political ethics and Unger’s and Irigaray’s projects of democratic experimentalism in the era of globalization.
Keywords
Roberto M. Unger; Luce Irigaray; pragmatism; democratic experimentalism; intercultural philosophy; social ethics; globalization
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48744
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Publication date:
3.2.2010.
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