Pragmatism and social hope : deepening democracy in global contexts /
"Drawing on the wisdom of past and present pragmatist thinkers, Judith M. Green maps a contemporary form of citizenship that emphasizes participation and cooperation and reclaims the critical role of social movements and nongovernmental organizations. Starting with the empowering processes of s...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Pragmatism and social hope : deepening democracy in global contexts
- 1. Achieving our country, achieving our world : Rorty, Baldwin, and social hope
- 2. American dreaming : from loss and fear to vision and hope
- 3. Hope's progress : remembering Dewey's pragmatist social epistemology in the twenty-first century
- 4. Choosing our history, choosing our hopes : truth and reconciliation between our past and our future
- 5. Trying deeper democracy : pragmatist lessons from the American experience
- 6. continuously planning city : imperatives and examples for deepening democracy
- 7. hope of democratic living : choosing active citizen participation for preferable global futures.
- 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