This contribution intends to put forward some critical reflections aimed towards the rethinking of public space as a space of encounter and reasonable dialogue, contrary to the tendency propogated by the debates that stimulate many western democracies, in which – in order to guarantee a peaceful coexistence between the people who foster different cultural and religious perspectives among themselves – an ethics of control as well as that which Charles Taylor defines as “code fetishism” are appealed to. The cultural challenge that we are up against is recognizing the centrality of the search for fulfillment in the public sphere: this is at the base of a new form of being, which is likewise capable of regenerating sociopolitical community.

Gerolin, A., “Dialectics had given way to life”: Rethinking Public Space Beyond the Ethics of Control, in Szalay M, S. M. (ed.), Beyond Secular Faith: Philosophy, Economics, Politics, and Literature, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, OR 97401 2023: 51- 66 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/229396]

“Dialectics had given way to life”: Rethinking Public Space Beyond the Ethics of Control

Gerolin, Alessandra
2023

Abstract

This contribution intends to put forward some critical reflections aimed towards the rethinking of public space as a space of encounter and reasonable dialogue, contrary to the tendency propogated by the debates that stimulate many western democracies, in which – in order to guarantee a peaceful coexistence between the people who foster different cultural and religious perspectives among themselves – an ethics of control as well as that which Charles Taylor defines as “code fetishism” are appealed to. The cultural challenge that we are up against is recognizing the centrality of the search for fulfillment in the public sphere: this is at the base of a new form of being, which is likewise capable of regenerating sociopolitical community.
2023
Inglese
Beyond Secular Faith: Philosophy, Economics, Politics, and Literature
9781666720778
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Gerolin, A., “Dialectics had given way to life”: Rethinking Public Space Beyond the Ethics of Control, in Szalay M, S. M. (ed.), Beyond Secular Faith: Philosophy, Economics, Politics, and Literature, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, OR 97401 2023: 51- 66 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/229396]
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