Is public space suited to co-operative inquiry?

• Main Author: TAN, Sor-hoon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2002
• Subjects: democracy; political theory; public space; Philosophy; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2517; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3774/viewcontent/Is_Public_Space_Suited_to_Co_operative_Inquiry.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article questions the nature of the philosophical commitment to the problem of 'the public' in modernity. To what extent does the natural form of the public determine the use and value of the instruments of pragmatism in the public-private divide. In this interpretation, John Dewey�...