Democracy as culture : Deweyan pragmatism in a globalizing world / edited by Sor-hoon Tan, John Whalen-Bridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tan, Sor-hoon, 1965-

Whalen-Bridge, John, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Democracy--United States.

United States.

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Culture.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiv, 218 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Contents:

On Richard Rorty / Bruce Robbins xi

1 Introduction: Pragmatism's Passport-Dewey, Democracy, and Globalization / Sor-hoon Tan, John Whalen-Bridge 1

I Universalizing Democracy Pragmatically

2 The Genesis of Democratic Norms: Some Insights from Classical Pragmatism / Larry A. Hickman 21

3 Reconstructing 'Culture': A Deweyan Response to Antidemocratic Culturalism / Sor-hoon Tan 31

II Imposing Democracy

4 Globalizing Democracy: A Deweyan Critique of Bush's Second-Term National Security Strategy / Sun Youzhong 53

5 Can Democratic Inquiry Be Exported? Dewey and the Globalization of Education / James Scott Johnston 63

6 Jane Addams: Pragmatist-Feminist Democracy in a Global Context / Judy D. Whipps 81

7 War Without Belief: On Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America / Bruce Robbins 91

III De-centering Dewey

8 Dewey's Difficult Recovery, Analytic Philosophy's Attempted Turn / John Holbo 107

9 Descartes, Dewey, and Democracy / Cecilia Wee 123

10 Nonduality and Aesthetic Experience: Dewey's Theory and Johnson's Practice / John Whalen-Bridge 139

11 When Dewey's Confucian Admirer Meets His Liberal Critic: Liang Shuming and Eamonn Callan on John Dewey's Democracy and Education / Jessica Ching-Sze Wang 163

12 Tang Junyi and the Very 'Idea' of Confucian Democracy / Roger T. Ames 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.

ISBN:

9780791475874

0791475875

OCLC:

192042048