ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 contrasts our pluralist approach with perhaps the most influential alternative to pluralism in contemporary political thought, the approach that Paul Livingston terms paradoxico-criticism. With the help of this contrast, we elucidate the added value of errant pluralism for addressing what paradoxico-criticism considers to be the key question of our time, namely the predominance of economism in all areas of life. We shall conclude with the image of the world that emerges from our pluralist approach: instead of a world reducible to a single logic (reductionism), rigorously divided and structured (parallelism) or rent by immanent paradox (paradoxico-criticism), we observe a world that keeps shimmering, ceaselessly changing its appearance as a result of its alternation between various poses.
