The Fundamentals of a Panrelational Understanding of the World
摘要
The third dimension of the neopragmatism advocated here lies (in addition to its metatheoretical and vocabulary-theoretical dimensions) in its panrelationalist orientation. This allows vocabularies to be understood as dynamic nodes of communication processes owing their existence solely to different relations—both internal and external—which means that this dimension of neopragmatism emancipates itself from a (purely) constructivist understanding of the world and opens itself up to the logics of (other) more-than-representational theories, an orientation that discourse theory according to Laclau and Mouffe does not integrate. In return, it has an analytical potential that the neopragmatism represented here has not developed due to its degree of abstraction. In this respect, Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory can serve as a translation tool for the (empirical) operationalization of vocabularies theory—combined with the possibility of weaving results into metatheoretical and more-than-representational contexts.