Authorities and naturalness beyond neo-pragmatism and deconstructionism : optimization of economic distribution and well-being as a means of going beyond dialectical failures
In the first part of my dissertation I demonstrate that Rorty's neo-pragmatism and Der-rida's openness to the Other give rise, in their practical applications, to the same arbi-trariness as the one usually attributed to a society shaped by Hegelian dialectic. A prob-lem arises, in a deconstructive attitude in decision-making, when we notice that any need, desire and interest of the other is an expression of a preceding arbitrary allocation of wealth, occupations and economic potentialities. This makes such seemingly ~spon-taneous~ desires a reflection of constrained everyday life economic interests, which are incapable of developing an economic system which really reflects equity and the most open and beneficial manifestation of skills and potentialities. A similar issue concerns Rorty's invoking the neo-pragmatist figure of the ~liberal-ironist~, which, for the same reasons, is always in danger of coinciding with an authority perceiving arbitrary desires and implementing a pragmatically preferable action according to them. In the second part of my dissertation, I lead the concepts of arbitrariness and authority back to the de-velopment of the self-consciousness of the traditional Hegelian dialectic. I then
Cortese, Domenico
Authorities and naturalness beyond neo-pragmatism and deconstructionism : optimization of economic distribution and well-being as a means of going beyond dialectical failures. In the first part of my dissertation I demonstrate that Rorty's neo-pragmatism and Der-rida's openness to the Other give rise, in their practical applications, to the same arbi-trariness as the one usually attributed to a society shaped by Hegelian dialectic. A prob-lem arises, in a deconstructive attitude in decision-making, when we notice that any need, desire and interest of the other is an expression of a preceding arbitrary allocation of wealth, occupations and economic potentialities. This makes such seemingly ~spon-taneous~ desires a reflection of constrained everyday life economic interests, which are incapable of developing an economic system which really reflects equity and the most open and beneficial manifestation of skills and potentialities. A similar issue concerns Rorty's invoking the neo-pragmatist figure of the ~liberal-ironist~, which, for the same reasons, is always in danger of coinciding with an authority perceiving arbitrary desires and implementing a pragmatically preferable action according to them. In the second part of my dissertation, I lead the concepts of arbitrariness and authority back to the de-velopment of the self-consciousness of the traditional Hegelian dialectic. I then
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