Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy
‘In times of defiant populism, a refreshing, thought-provoking invitation to reorient attention from peoples to publics comes from Frega’s lucid reconstruction of the elective affinity of democracy and pragmatism. Frega’s wide view of democracy is an auth
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Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy
Roberto Frega
Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy
Roberto Frega Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, Germany
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Preface
It has been pointed out to me that one reaches a better grasp of what this book aims to do when one realizes that it has been written by an Italian scholar educated in the French academic system, with a taste for German “Problemgeschichte”, and a strong interest in the American intellectual tradition. And, indeed, the book incorporates different perspectives coming from the intellectual traditions with which I am acquainted: the Italian passion for historical accuracy, the French integration of social views in political theory, the German inclination for normative reconstruction, and the American experimentalist attitude toward political theorizing. This biographical remark is meant to warn the reader that the book has a somehow eclectic outlook that renders its classification in contemporary academic discourses somehow uneasy. While aiming to contribute to contemporary political theory, the book is rooted in the study of political thought, and open to the influence of the social sciences. Combining sociological analyses and the history of ideas with normative theorizing is a way of proceeding that goes against the grain of today’s established practice of separating the history of ideas from conceptual analysis, and both from more empirically or
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