Pragmatism and Diversity: Dewey in the Context of Late Twentieth Century Debates [Hardcover]

Diversity is an unavoidable aspect of twenty-first century living. The authors in this volume engage in cross-difference conversations with other thinkers from earlier periods and other philosophical traditions in order to reconstruct pragmatism and cosmopolitanism in ways that are more attuned to our lived experience of diversity.The Roots of Diversity in Pragmatist Thought; J.Campbell ? The Context of Diversity vs. The Problem of Diversity; W.Gavin ? Reading Dewey and Mouffe on Democratic Norms; L.Hickman? Cultivating Pragmatist Cosmopolitanism: The Diverse Democratic Community after Huntington and Benhabib; J.Green Green?Democracy - Practice as Needed; M.Eldridge ? Dewey and Levinas on Pluralism, the Other, and Democracy; J.Garrison? Reconstruction of Philosophy and Inquiry into Human Affairs - Deweyan Pragmatism in Dialogue with the Postmodern Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman; S.Neubert ?& K.Reich Diverse Communities - Dewey's Theory of Democracy as a Challenge for Foucault, Bourdieu, and Rorty; K.Reich? Conclusion: The Future of Democratic DiversitySTEFAN NEUBERT?Director of the Office for International Relations at the Universit?t zu K?ln, Germany.
KERSTEN REICH?University Professor at the Universit?t zu K?ln, Germany.
JUDITH M. GREEN?Associate professor of Philosophy and co-director of Women's Studies at Fordham University, USA.