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Toward a Programmatic Pragmatism: A Response to Naoko Saito (2002)

Boisvert, Raymond D.

Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Journal of philosophy of education 36 (2002), S. 0

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ISSN: 1467-9752

Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Topics: Education , Philosophy

Notes: Naoko Saito has made a good case for emphasising the ‘tragic’ dimension within Dewey’s pragmatism. My response suggests ways in which Saito has not gone far enough. She does not adequately move beyond ‘procedural pragmatism’ to a ‘programmatic pragmatism’ which offers substantive articulations about the human good. In addition, her emphasis on ‘Emersonian perfectionism’ is misguided. Both the language of ‘perfectionism’ and the figure of Emerson are unsuitable for the project she intends. Speaking more concretely of a ‘tragic–comic meliorism’ allied to the novelist Hawthorne, it is suggested, provides a more fruitful path.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.00299

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