Pragmatism and Diversity [electronic resource] : Dewey in the Context of Late Twentieth Century Debates /
Green, J.editor.
Neubert, S.editor.
Diversity is an unavoidable aspect of twenty-first century living. The authors in this volume engage in cross-difference conversations with other thinkers from earlier periods and other philosophical traditions in order to reconstruct pragmatism and cosmopolitanism in ways that are more attuned to our lived experience of diversity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Editors' Introduction; 2 The Roots of Diversity in Pragmatic Thought; 3 The Context of Diversity versus the Problem of Diversity; 4 The Genesis of Democratic Norms: Agonistic Pluralism or Experimentalism?; 5 Cultivating Pragmatist Cosmopolitanism-Democratic Local-and-Global Community amidst Diversity; 6 Democracy-Practice as Needed; 7 Dewey and Levinas on Pluralism, the Other, and Democracy; 8 Reconstruction of Philosophy and Inquiry into Human Affairs-Deweyan Pragmatism in Dialogue with the Postmodern Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
9 Diverse Communities-Dewey's Theory of Democracy as a Challenge for Foucault, Bourdieu, and Rorty10 Concluding Conversation: The Future of Democratic Diversity; Author Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Diversity is an unavoidable aspect of twenty-first century living. The authors in this volume engage in cross-difference conversations with other thinkers from earlier periods and other philosophical traditions in order to reconstruct pragmatism and cosmopolitanism in ways that are more attuned to our lived experience of diversity.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Political science.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Pragmatism.
World politics.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Political Science.
Social Philosophy.
Pragmatism.
Political History.