The third Convivialist Manifesto advocates a coherent, balanced, humanist political philosophy. In rejecting pressures to confine ourselves to narrow empirical work and instead nailing its colours to a progressive future it acts as a beacon for politically engaged academics. This response raises concerns, however, about the authors’ vision of how convivialism should be employed. The project of assembling a global assembly of the good and the wise to agree on a convivialist philosophy seems impractical but also tangential to what the progressive movement needs. Could convivialism, instead, be a practical political philosophy, that can be used to resolve disagreements, build better policy solutions, and bring more people into the movements for climate justice and social justice?
Dave Elder‐Vass (Tue,) studied this question.