Pragmatism and social hope : deepening democracy in global contexts / Judith M. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Judith M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems--United States.

Social problems.

Social planning.

United States.

Social planning--United States.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Pragmatism.

Physical Description:

x, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction: Pragmatism and Social Hope: Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts 1

Why America and the World Need Deeper Democracy and Widely Shared Social Hope 1

The Role of Public Philosophy in the Twenty-first Century? 8

Public Philosophy, Pragmatism, and Social Hope 12

Why We Must Reconstruct Rorty's Dream-Story and Map to Achieving Our Country 15

My Pragmatist American Story and Map to Social Hope: Some Chapter Landmarks 20

1 Achieving Our Country, Achieving Our World: Rorty, Baldwin, and Social Hope 29

The Painful Beginnings of America's Twenty-first-Century Struggle for Social Hope 30

American Stories and American Hopes: Rorty Versus Baldwin 36

Social Hope and Forgiveness? 38

Social Hope, Forgetting, and National Pride? 41

Rorty's Democracy: Patriotic Dream, Moving Image, Leading Story, Civic Religion 45

Intellectual Self-Transformation in a Time of Democratic Emergency? 52

The Better Party for American Progressives to Join: Whitman, Dewey, Baldwin 57

2 American Dreaming: From Loss and Fear to Vision and Hope 60

From Stories of Loss and Fear to Vision, Hope, and Action 61

American Civic Religion and Its Opponents: Rorty's Losses, Fears, Vision, and Hope 63

Do We Need a "Socialist" Metaphysics and Pragmatist Philosophical Methods? 71

Rorty's Transformative Vision: Intellectuals Rejoin the Reformist Left 81

Recentering the Economic Issues: Rorty's Nightmare and the Dream Beyond 85

Participatory Democracy and the End of Capitalism: "Useless" Ideals? 89

Collaborative Storytelling and Shared Vision Questing: Lessons from Native America 92

3 Hope's Progress: Remembering Dewey's Pragmatist Social Epistemology in the Twenty-first Century 100

Why We Need Well-Grounded Social Hopes Now 101

Beyond Ethnocentrism: Why We Need a Pragmatist Social Epistemology 108

Reclaiming Dewey's Intercultural Pragmatist Epistemology 116

Aiding Hope's Progress 124

4 Choosing Our History, Choosing Our Hopes: Truth and Reconciliation Between Our Past and Our Future 127

Are Knowledge of History and Hope Incompatible? 128

Choosing Our History, Choosing Our Hopes? 131

Rorty's Whitman: A World Without Sin and Knowledge? 135

Rorty's Dewey: A World Without Truth? 137

Rorty's American Black Box: A Substitute for a Pragmatist Social Epistemology? 140

Remembering Complex, Painful Truths of History as a Basis for Shared Social Hopes 143

A Pragmatist Path to Social Hope: Critical Memories, Deep Truths, Democratic Loyalties 149

Conclusion: Only True, Shared Stories Can Restore Shared Social Hopes 155

5 Trying Deeper Democracy: Pragmatist Lessons from the American Experience 158

Part 1 A Dialectical History of American Democratic

Theory and Practice 158

Two Strands in American Democratic History: Representation and Direct Participation 159

Experimenting with Democracy: Our First Postrevolutionary Generations 162

Reconstructing America: The Progressive Era and the City Beautiful Movement 168

The Struggle Widens and Deepens: The Interwar Years and Their Aftermath 169

Winning and Defeating the "War on Poverty" 172

Peacemakers and Anarchists: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement and Its Offspring 176

The Trilateral Commission Strikes Back 178

Part 2 Participatory Democracy: Movements, Campaigns, and Democratic Living 181

Participatory Democracy: A Useless Ideal for the Twenty-first Century? 181

Rorty's Hero-Based Claim: Campaigns, Not Movements, as Frameworks for Living 185

America's Historical Experience: Effective Campaigns Require Broader Movements 187

Transformative Movements and Democratic Living in a Dangerous, Uncertain World 191

6 The Continuously Planning City: Imperatives and Examples for Deepening Democracy 194

Urban Schools of Deeper, "Second-Strand" Democracy 195

Contemporary "Second-Strand" Imperatives for Democratic Citizen Participation 198

Deepening and Expanding America's Cultures of Democratic Participation 203

Some Urban Experiments: Institutionalizing Direct Citizen Participation in Government 209

Creating Linkages: Government Partnerships with Nongovernmental Organizations 215

Other Sites for Direct Citizen Participation: Courts, Campuses, Movements, Colloquies 218

7 The Hope of Democratic Living: Choosing Active Citizen Participation for Preferable Global Futures 225

Living with Hope, Faith, and Tragic Meliorism in the Twenty-first Century 226

The Rebirth of Democratic Citizen Participation: A Global Story, a Working Hypothesis 227

Educating for Dewey's Personal Democracy: Conflict Resolution and Citizen Voice 232

Dewey on Deepening Democracy Through Citizen Participation: A Helpful Guide? 238

A Conclusion and a Hypothesis for Living: Risking Our Hopes on Citizen Participation 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-285) and index.

ISBN:

9780231144582

023114458X

9780231518222

0231518226

OCLC:

225087585