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A Critical Pragmatism: Marcuse, Adorno, and Peirce on the Artificial Stagnation of Individual and Social Development in Advanced Industrial Societies
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Clancy Smith; Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University, United States
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Philosophy
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| Description |
This paper will analyze the effects advanced industrial societies have on individual and social development through the eyes of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man and the moral consequences of such artificial stagnation through Adorno’s lectures on The Problems of Moral Philosophy. Because such an investigation necessarily brings us into the realm of social psychology, we will turn to the social psychological tradition at the heart of American pragmatism, a target for critical theorists who are often antagonistic to the entire tradition. We will endeavor to advance two alternate readings of the work of C.S. Peirce, arguing that although one type of pragmatism may be justly attacked by critical theorists, there is another, I argue, more critical manifestation of pragmatic human development, that requires the type of autonomy-infused, open-ended development that Marcuse champions. Moreover, I will argue that Peirce’s seminal essay “The Fixation of Belief” anticipated many of Marcuse’s critiques of advanced industrial societies by nearly ninety years.
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Philosophy Alumni of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas
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2010-03-03
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Peer-Reviewed Article
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application/pdf
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http://www.philjol.info/index.php/KRIT/article/view/1527
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Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy; Vol 3, No 2 (2009); 30-52
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en
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