Journal article
The Insistence of the Possible
For a Speculative Pragmatism
- By Didier Debaise
- and Isabelle Stengers
Pages 82 to 89
Cite this article
- DEBAISE, Didier
- and STENGERS, Isabelle,
- Debaise, Didier.
- et al.
- Debaise, D.
- and Stengers, I.
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.065.0082
Cite this article
- Debaise, D.
- and Stengers, I.
- Debaise, Didier.
- et al.
- DEBAISE, Didier
- and STENGERS, Isabelle,
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.065.0082
English
This article strives to continue the call of Whitehead: “Philosophy cannot exclude anything”. Thus speculative philosophy extends W. James’ radical empiricism. Its task is to locate itself on the ground of experience in its multifariousness, and to preserve what experience makes important. But importance can never be reduced to a matter of fact. To make a situation important consists in intensifying the sense of the possible that it holds in itself and that insists in it, through struggles and claims for another way of making it exist.