Book contents
- Habits
- Habits
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- The Pragmatist Reappraisal of Habit in Contemporary Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory: Introductory Essay
- Part 1 The Sensorimotor Embodiment of Habits
- Part II The Enactment of Habits in Mind and World
- 7 The Backside of Habit
- 8 Habit, Ontology, and Embodied Cognition Without Borders
- 9 Clarifying the Character of Habits
- 10 Habits, Meaning, and Intentionality
- 11 Language, Habit, and the Future
- 12 Moral Habit
- 13 Habits of Goodness
- Part III Socially Embeddded and Culturally Extended Habits
- Index
- References
11 - Language, Habit, and the Future
from Part II - The Enactment of Habits in Mind and World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2020
- Habits
- Habits
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- The Pragmatist Reappraisal of Habit in Contemporary Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory: Introductory Essay
- Part 1 The Sensorimotor Embodiment of Habits
- Part II The Enactment of Habits in Mind and World
- 7 The Backside of Habit
- 8 Habit, Ontology, and Embodied Cognition Without Borders
- 9 Clarifying the Character of Habits
- 10 Habits, Meaning, and Intentionality
- 11 Language, Habit, and the Future
- 12 Moral Habit
- 13 Habits of Goodness
- Part III Socially Embeddded and Culturally Extended Habits
- Index
- References
Summary
Dewey's thought is central to the organicist tradition, which views habit as “‘a primary ontological phenomenon’, shaping the person as a whole and traversing a continuum from the individual to the social, from embodied intentionality to conscious reflection”. This view enjoys a mutually supportive relationship with the theory of linguistic bodies, a nonrepresentational, world-involving account of languaging as a type of embodied social agency. Everything that a linguistic body does and thinks is conditioned by her linguistic habits. Paradoxically, each unique life is built out of the sense-making acts of others. Through constitutive openness to others’ perspectives, habits that define linguistic bodies call forth certain futures. The future depends on which utterances a community privileges and with whom it dialogues. Considering the global climate emergency, I question how we can actually change our future by disrupting the habits that currently comprise what Dewey calls “the endless chain of humanity.”
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- HabitsPragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory, pp. 245 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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