Michele Moody-Adams, "Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope" (Columbia UP, 2022)
New Books in Philosophy
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Dewey's Conception of Social Movements
Dewey: Your conception of social movements is inspired by the account of publics, right? In the public and its problems. You know, it's, I think it's important that you stress that. It was important for me as somebody thinking about those disruptions to stress that many social movements are actually court sort of exemplars of collective rationality. They're not intrinsically impulsive or intrinsically susceptible to violence and destructiveness. That doesn't mean some movements like the movement against apartheid don't occasionally need to rely on violence.
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