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
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: Introduction; title: Democracy and diversity; title: Limitations of a market place diversity; title: Social justice and the critical imagination; title: Rejecting the entertainment model of citizenship; title: Creative democracy & the critical imagination; title: Communication as epistemic and the communicative imagination; title: The communicative imagination; title: Exploring our theoretical and methodological assumption; title: The critical paradigm; title: Neo-pragmatism; title: Perspectivalism and cosmopolitanism; title: Perspectivalism : de-centering the real; title: The contribution of four philosophers to this project; title: 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; title: Power, alienation, and communication; title: Contrasting platonic and critical models of education; title: Platonic v. critical models of education; title: Critical education; title: Service learning; title: Theoretical bases for service learning; title: Social justice-oriented service learning model.