Leading scholars challenge and reinvigorate the pragmatic method of John Dewey.
Focusing on issues of diversity, difference, and inclusion, leading scholars explore John Dewey's pluralistic, deliberative, and communicative theory of democracy. They discuss the tensions between Dewey's two criteria for a democratic society found in Democracy and Education; critique and recreate Deweyan democratic pluralism from a contemporary European perspective that acknowledges the importance of postmodern and poststructuralist thought; examine Dewey's theory of inquiry in ways that illuminate his thinking about the deliberative functions of democracy; and probe the communicative aspects of democracy, emphasizing how emotions and interests both help and hinder communication. These essays challenge, revise, and reinvigorate Deweyan thinking, offering guidance for deeply democratic remedies to the fears, ontological wounds, and practical needs that characterize our problematic times.
| ISBN: | 9780791475454 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2008 |
| Author: | Jim Garrison |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 210 pages |
| Genres: |
Pragmatism Political structures: democracy Philosophy and theory of education |
Leading scholars challenge and reinvigorate the pragmatic method of John Dewey.Focusing on issues of diversity, difference, and inclusion, leading scholars explore John Dewey's pluralistic, deliberative, and communicative theory of democracy. They discuss the tensions between Dewey's two criteria for a democratic society found in Democracy and Education; critique and recreate Deweyan democratic pluralism from a contemporary European perspective that acknowledges the importance of postmodern and poststructuralist thought; examine Dewey's theory of inquiry in ways that illuminate his thinking about the deliberative functions of democracy; and probe the communicative aspects of democracy, emphasizing how emotions and interests both help and hinder communication.
Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey features in the following genres: Pragmatism, Political structures: democracy, Philosophy and theory of education
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Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey was written by Jim Garrison and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey has 210 pages