Brandom y el pragmatismo Hegeliano

Extracto de la entrevista de Italo Testa a Robert Brandom en Venecia (2001):

Testa: How do you judge, also in Light of the conference held in Venice, the role that Hegel has historically played within the American tradition? How far does your approach to Hegel connect itself to the partiality interrupted stream of the pragamatism reception of Hegel and how far does it take a different direction? Which insights of the European reading of Hegel do you find fruitful to improve or revise the American pragmatic approach?

Brandom: Each of the members of the great triumvirate of classical American pragmatism was deeply influenced by Hegel. Charles Peirce`s careful study of Hegel`s Logik is manifest, for instance, in his own mature metaphysics of what he called �firstness�, �secondness�, and �thirdness�, and his reading of the Ph�nomenologie in his doctrine of �evolutionary love�. William James, while not himself a reader of Hgel, shaped his thought in no small part by his ongoing confrontation with the Hegelianism of his colleague and friend Josiah Royce. John Dewey began his philosophical career as an avowed Hegelian, and, while breaking with he came to see as Hegel`s intellectualism, retained and adapted many elements of his thought throughout his career.
Classical pragmatism takes over from Hegel many of its central, orienting principles. Prime among them is the primacy of the practical, of doing over judging, in understanding our rational capacities. As Hegel says in the Preface to the Ph�nomenologie des Geistes: �Reason is purposive activity.� The pragmatists follow Hegel in drawing the conclusion that fixed intellectual dualisms, paradigmatically the Cartesian opposition of subject and object and the Kantian opposition of description and prescription, are to be overcome by focusing on the concrete dynamic processes in which social, embodied creatures transform and are transformed by their enviroments. Accordingly, they follow Hegel in thinking of concepts in terms of the ways they develop by being applied in practice, rather than in terms of their representacional content. With Hegel, they draw holist conclusions from this way of thinking: the various capacities that make up our practical and cognitive life are intelligible only in concert with their fellows, in terms of the role they play and the contribution they make to our overall functioning.

Entrevista completa: Hegelian Pragmatism and Social Emancipation
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