“There is no understanding of Obama without an understanding of Pragmatism”
Check out Aboulafia on Obama’s pragmatism over at TPM (or over at Aboulafia’s blog).
Aboulafia’s point: Obama the experimentalist, Obama the fallibilist, Obama the pluralist. All that is missing here: Obama the meliorist (a fancy word for ‘hope-ism’). And that is where he might really make a difference in reinvigorating a pragmatist, an American, a democratic politics of self-governance.
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[…] » We saw more pragmatism this week in Obama’s inaugural address (following up on earlier posts). It was not quite the masterful literary piece that one might have expected given all that we […]
Pragmatism in Obama’s Inaugural « requiem for certainty
January 24, 2009 at 8:58 pm