Neo-pragmatism, communication, and the culture of creative democracy
By: Omar Swartz, Katia Campbell, Christina Pestana.
Contributors: Campbell, Katia.; Pestana, Christina.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781433107313
Subjects: Democracy; Pragmatism; Communication -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Phillip K. Tompkins; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Democracy and diversity. Limitations of a marketplace diversity; title: Social justice and the critical imagination. Rejecting the entertainment model of citizenship; title: Creative democracy and the importance of the critical imagination; title: Communication as epistemic and the communicative imagination. The communicative imagination; title: Exploring our theoretical and methodological assumptions. The critical paradigm; title: Neo-pragmatism; title: Perspectivalism and cosmopolitanism. Perspectivalism : de-centering the "real"; title: The contribution of four philosophers to this project. Nietzsche, cultural criticism, and the "good American"; title: Emerson and the unattained yet attainable self; title: Dewey's democracy as a moral problem; title: Rorty's anti-foundationalism; title: Alienation and power. Power, alienation, and communication; title: Contrasting platonic and critical models of education. Platonic v. critical models of education; title: Critical education; title: Service learning. Theoretical bases of service learning; title: Social justice-oriented service learning; title: A social justice-oriented service learning model.