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How to Submit to Inquiry: Dewey and Foucault

How to Submit to Inquiry: Dewey and Foucault paul rabinow University of California--Berkeley The problem reduced to its lowest terms is whether inquiry can develop in its own ongoing course the logical standards and forms to which further inquiry shall submit. --John Dewey, Logic 13 gilles deleuze, in his book What Is Philosophy? asks: "What is the best way to follow the great philosophers? Is it to repeat what they said or to do what they did, that is, create concepts for problems that necessarily change?" (Deleuze and Guattari 28). I imagine few in this audience would disagree with that claim. The changing, historically situated, interplay of concepts and problems is a register that those inspired by the work of John Dewey can readily acknowledge as pertinent even if what Dewey meant by each of the terms and what Deleuze meant by them is clearly not the same thing.1 Over the years, I have given my own mode of inquiry a number of different names including "the anthropology of reason" or "fieldwork in philosophy" or more recently "designing human practices." In each case I was drawn to inquiring into situations of ethical, religious, and/or scientific problems as the object of my inquiry as well as attempting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Pluralist University of Illinois Press

How to Submit to Inquiry: Dewey and Foucault

The Pluralist , Volume 7 (3) – Oct 23, 2012

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paul rabinow University of California--Berkeley The problem reduced to its lowest terms is whether inquiry can develop in its own ongoing course the logical standards and forms to which further inquiry shall submit. --John Dewey, Logic 13 gilles deleuze, in his book What Is Philosophy? asks: "What is the best way to follow the great philosophers? Is it to repeat what they said or to do what they did, that is, create concepts for problems that necessarily change?" (Deleuze and Guattari 28). I imagine few in this audience would disagree with that claim. The changing, historically situated, interplay of concepts and problems is a register that those inspired by the work of John Dewey can readily acknowledge as pertinent even if what Dewey meant by each of the terms and what Deleuze meant by them is clearly not the same thing.1 Over the years, I have given my own mode of inquiry a number of different names including "the anthropology of reason" or "fieldwork in philosophy" or more recently "designing human practices." In each case I was drawn to inquiring into situations of ethical, religious, and/or scientific problems as the object of my inquiry as well as attempting

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Published: Oct 23, 2012

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