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Experimental Pragmatism in the Third Globalization

Experimental Pragmatism in the Third Globalization Contemporary Pragmatism Vol. 9, No. 2 (December 2012), 181­204 Editions Rodopi ©2012 Justin Desautels-Stein Pragmatism dominates contemporary legal thought, but knowing this isn't knowing so much. Legal pragmatism means different things to different people, and as this essay argues, minimalist and experimentalist forms of regulation both share a broadly pragmatic sensibility about law and democracy. As a consequence, we need to tease out the various threads of legal pragmatism in the hope of distinguishing the pragmatisms that work from the ones that don't, or less pragmatically, the ones that are just from the ones that are not. This knowledge will come from an ongoing assessment of the political stakes imminent in the pragmatisms, and an understanding of where and when pragmatists might have parted ways from their liberal roots. Of course, we may very well want to keep these roots. But unless we know something about the new pragmatic liberalism, and from whence it came, the interminable circles of tired discourse against which we use our James and Dewey to rally, will remain curiously unbroken. 1. Introduction It's a tricky business setting out to say something meaningful about long swaths of history, if not a silly one. When http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Pragmatism Brill

Experimental Pragmatism in the Third Globalization

Desautels-Stein, Justin
Contemporary Pragmatism , Volume 9 (2): 181 – Apr 21, 2012
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© Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Contemporary Pragmatism Vol. 9, No. 2 (December 2012), 181­204 Editions Rodopi ©2012 Justin Desautels-Stein Pragmatism dominates contemporary legal thought, but knowing this isn't knowing so much. Legal pragmatism means different things to different people, and as this essay argues, minimalist and experimentalist forms of regulation both share a broadly pragmatic sensibility about law and democracy. As a consequence, we need to tease out the various threads of legal pragmatism in the hope of distinguishing the pragmatisms that work from the ones that don't, or less pragmatically, the ones that are just from the ones that are not. This knowledge will come from an ongoing assessment of the political stakes imminent in the pragmatisms, and an understanding of where and when pragmatists might have parted ways from their liberal roots. Of course, we may very well want to keep these roots. But unless we know something about the new pragmatic liberalism, and from whence it came, the interminable circles of tired discourse against which we use our James and Dewey to rally, will remain curiously unbroken. 1. Introduction It's a tricky business setting out to say something meaningful about long swaths of history, if not a silly one. When

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