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Democracy as culture : Deweyan pragmatism in a globalizing world / edited by Sor-hoon Tan, John Whalen-Bridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pragmatism.
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Democracy.
- Democracy--United States.
- Culture.
- Globalization.
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
- Dewey, John.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 218 p.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the significance of Dewey's thought on democracy for the contemporary world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- DEMOCRACY AS CULTURE
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- On Richard Rorty
- 1. Introduction: Pragmatism's Passport-Dewey,Democracy, and Globalization
- SECTION I. Universalizing Democracy Pragmatically
- 2. The Genesis of Democratic Norms: Some Insights from Classical Pragmatism
- 3. Reconstructing 'Culture': A Deweyan Response to Antidemocratic Culturalism
- SECTION I. IImposing Democracy
- 4. Globalizing Democracy: A Deweyan Critique of Bush's Second-Term National Security Strategy
- 5. Can Democratic Inquiry Be Exported? Dewey and the Globalization of Education
- 6. Jane Addams: Pragmatist-Feminist Democracy in a Global Context
- 7. War Without Belief: On Louis Menand'sThe Metaphysical Club:A Story of Ideas in America
- SECTION III. De-centering Dewey
- 8. Dewey's Diffi cult Recovery, Analytic Philosophy's Attempted Turn
- 9. Descartes, Dewey, and Democracy
- 10. Nonduality and Aesthetic Experience: Dewey's Theory and Johnson's Practice
- 11. When Dewey's Confucian Admirer Meets His Liberal Critic: Liang Shuming and Eamonn Callan on John Dewey's Democracy and Education
- 12. Tang Junyi and the Very "Idea"of Confucian Democracy
- Works Cited
- List of Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791477700
- 0791477703
- 9781435695450
- 1435695453
- OCLC:
- 923406094
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