Еманципацията като господство и страстта на конформизма
Emancipation as Domination and the Passion of Conformity

Summary/Abstract: The paper draws upon John Dewey’s and George H. Mead’s workings on social interaction in order to focus the question how skepticism brings about conformity drive and to try to explain the peculiar combination of growing social anxiety, on the one hand, and the accelerating conformist drive, on the other that we can witness nowadays (at least among young urban population in Bulgaria). The paper also furthers the staged dialogue between Chicago pragmatism and social critique. After re- calling what pragmatist functionalism is, the paper focusses on its interpretation of subject and object as functional moments of action and on the emergence of objects as temporarily stable meanings, created interactively, where interaction is taken to be a principally triadic composition. Following the pragmatist line of argument construing objective meanings as fugitives from the immediacy of acts and as instruments for coping with action environment and by the same token as source of new un- certainties in that same environment. Out of this line a thesis is inferred that structures of domination primarily result from successful emancipatory projects and it is precisely this which makes domination at once unavoidable and unavoidably fragile.

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