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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823838303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2008

ISBN

0-7914-7770-3

1-4356-9545-3

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 218 p

Altri autori (Persone)

TanSor-hoon <1965->

Whalen-BridgeJohn <1961->

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Pragmatism

Democracy - Philosophy

Democracy - United States

Culture

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the significance of Dewey's thought on democracy for the contemporary world.