Situation, Meaning, and Improvisation: An Aesthetics of Existence in Dewey and Foucault

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  • Vincent Colapietro Pennsylvania State University

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https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i11.3203

Resumé

This essay explores important intersections between the thought of John Dewey and Michel Foucault, with special attention to the distinction between emancipation versus “practices of freedom.” The complex relationship between these thinkers is, at once, complementary, divergent, and overlapping. The author however stresses the way in which both Dewey and Foucault portray situated subjects as improvisational actors implicated in unique situations, the meaning of which turns on the extemporaneous exertions of these implicated agents.

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Vincent Colapietro, Pennsylvania State University

Vincent Colapietro is Liberal Arts Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University (University Park Campus). In addition to numerous articles on Peirce and more generally pragmatism, he is the author of “The Vanishing Subject of Contemporary Philosophy” (Journal of Philosophy), “American Evasions of Foucault” (Southern Journal of Philosophy), and other essays exploring significant connections between classical American pragmatism and contemporary Continental thought. His books include Peirce’s Approach to the Self (1989) and Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom (2003).

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2011-02-01

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Colapietro, V. (2011). Situation, Meaning, and Improvisation: An Aesthetics of Existence in Dewey and Foucault. Foucault Studies, (11), 20–40. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i11.3203

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Number 11: February 2011: Foucault and Pragmatism

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Special Issue on Foucault and Pragmatism

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