Neopragmatism’s central features arise from its combination of pragmatism and linguistic philosophy. This results not least in its openness to redescriptions against the backdrop of its focus on solving problems by expanding contingency. Social inclusion is its central normative orientation. Its high level of abstraction puts neopragmatism ‘in need of translation’ if it is to serve as a basis for theory-driven empirical research, in this case spatial research in particular. While neopragmatism has proven itself as a meta-theoretical integrative framework in regional geography and landscape research (here: Kühne, 2024; Kühne et al., 2024, 2025), a redescriptive differentiation of neopragmatism as a vocabularies and panrelationalist theory has been missing to date. The considerations presented in this book form a basic structure for a differentiating and operationalizing redescription of the neopragmatist approach, drawing on various theoretical foundations. Some of these have been integrated in full, some in part, and in some cases the profile of the neopragmatist approach presented here has been sharpened.

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A Draft of a Vocabulary-Theoretical, Pan-Relationalist Approach to Neopragmatic Social and Spatial Research

  • Olaf Kühne,
  • Karsten Berr,
  • Petra Lohmann,
  • Kai Schuster

摘要

Neopragmatism’s central features arise from its combination of pragmatism and linguistic philosophy. This results not least in its openness to redescriptions against the backdrop of its focus on solving problems by expanding contingency. Social inclusion is its central normative orientation. Its high level of abstraction puts neopragmatism ‘in need of translation’ if it is to serve as a basis for theory-driven empirical research, in this case spatial research in particular. While neopragmatism has proven itself as a meta-theoretical integrative framework in regional geography and landscape research (here: Kühne, 2024; Kühne et al., 2024, 2025), a redescriptive differentiation of neopragmatism as a vocabularies and panrelationalist theory has been missing to date. The considerations presented in this book form a basic structure for a differentiating and operationalizing redescription of the neopragmatist approach, drawing on various theoretical foundations. Some of these have been integrated in full, some in part, and in some cases the profile of the neopragmatist approach presented here has been sharpened.