ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 addresses widespread objections and prejudices against pluralism in terms of the temptation of attaining coherence across procedures. Drawing on contemporary debates around identity politics and ‘cancel culture’, we shall demonstrate why the aspiration for coherence serves either to diminish pluralism in a reductionist way or to regulate it in a parallelist manner. Our errant approach to pluralism neither affirms the supremacy of one procedure in terms of which one’s practice of other procedure should be evaluated nor expects one’s record in one procedure to rub off on one’s practice in all others. It is therefore possible for one to be politically progressive yet ethically irresponsible, economically efficient yet aesthetically retrograde. Coherence is only attainable within but not across different procedures.
