Perfectionism in Practice: Shusterman’s Place in Recent Pragmatism

Mathias Girel (1)

1 La République des savoirs : Lettres, Sciences, Philosophie

Building on recent texts, I give a characterization of Richard Shusterman’s specific variant of pragmatism, understood as a melioristic or perfectionist pragmatism, where ethical and political dimensions are deeply intertwined with the epistemological one. To do so, I focus on what seems to be Shusterman’s latest contribution to his interrupted dialogue with Richard Rorty in Thinking through the Body.

Mots clés: Richard Shusterman; Perfectionism; Richard Rorty; Empiricism; Pragmatism; Somaesthetics; Stanley Cavell; John Stuart Mill; Robert Brandom

Domaines: Philosophie

Mathias Girel. Perfectionism in Practice: Shusterman’s Place in Recent Pragmatism. Contemporary Pragmatism, 2015, 12 (1), pp.156-179. ⟨10.1163/18758185-01201009⟩. ⟨hal-01388796⟩