Democracy As Culture : Deweyan Pragmatism in a Globalizing World

by Tan, Sor-Hoon; Whalen-Bridge, John

• ISBN13: 9780791475874
• ISBN10: 0791475875
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

"Using a multidisciplinary approach, contributors to this volume explore the significance of John Dewey's Pragmatism for the contemporary world. They examine such issues as whether Classical Pragmatism justifies global democracy, whether Dewey's idea of democracy - so intimately linked to American culture - has any relevance for other cultures, and whether democracy can take other forms than those found in Europe and America. Contributors focus on Dewey's cross-cultural experience and affinities with Descartes and modern Neo-Confucians to provide a glimpse of how Dewey's influence outside America has stimulated other cultures, heralding a new stage in the growth of Pragmatism."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
On Richard Rorty	p. xi
Introduction: Pragmatism's Passport-Dewey, Democracy, and Globalization	p. 1
Universalizing Democracy Pragmatically
The Genesis of Democratic Norms: Some Insights from Classical Pragmatism	p. 21
Reconstructing 'Culture': A Deweyan Response to Antidemocratic Culturalism	p. 31
Imposing Democracy
Globalizing Democracy: A Deweyan Critique of Bush's Second-Term National Security Strategy	p. 53
Can Democratic Inquiry Be Exported? Dewey and the Globalization of Education	p. 63
Jane Addams: Pragmatist-Feminist Democracy in a Global Context	p. 81
War Without Belief: On Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America	p. 91
De-centering Dewey
Dewey's Difficult Recovery, Analytic Philosophy's Attempted Turn	p. 107
Descartes, Dewey, and Democracy	p. 123
Nonduality and Aesthetic Experience: Dewey's Theory and Johnson's Practice	p. 139
When Dewey's Confucian Admirer Meets His Liberal Critic: Liang Shuming and Eamonn Callan on John Dewey's Democracy and Education	p. 163
Tang Junyi and the Very 'Idea' of Confucian Democracy	p. 177
Works Cited	p. 201
List of Contributors	p. 209
Index	p. 213
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