Trust, experience and embodied knowledge or lessons from John Dewey on the dangers of abstraction

Adam Seligman

Journal of Trust Research, 2021, vol. 11, issue 1, 5-21

Abstract: This paper explores the connection between trust and confidence on the one hand and different forms of knowledge (abstract and general viz. particular and concrete) on the other. While the distinction between trust and confidence was first made by Niklas Luhmann their connection to forms of knowledge and so attitudes towards difference is new. Making use of insights afforded to us by John Dewey, I argue here for the dependence of trust on an ability to abide with ambiguity and the loss of control that the eschewal of generalised categories of knowledge implies. Finally, I draw social and political implications from these insights in terms of the ability to live with differences, with the stranger and with those ‘others' who cannot be known and so contained within abstract categories.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/21515581.2021.1946821

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