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Pragmatism and Radical Democracy
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In this paper, the authors investigate the relation between the renewal of interest in pragmatism and the recent attempts to develop radical democratic alternatives to political liberalism, and suggest that pragmaticism makes a distinctive contribution to the theory and practice of radical democracy.Abstract:
This paper suggests that pragmatism makes a distinctive contribution to the theory and practice of radical democracy. It investigates the relation ship between the renewal of interest in pragmatism and the recent attempts to develop radical democratic alternatives to political liberalism. With particular reference to the contemporary critical social theory of Habermas and Honneth, the paper outlines key dimensions of the civic republican, deliberative democratic and reflexive cooperative reconstructions of John Dewey's conception of democracy. These reconstructions are shown to have explicated important pragmatist insights concerning public participation in civic associations, the discursive practices of deliberation, and the cooperative organization of the division of labour. However, it is argued that each of these reconstructions pre suppose some facet of the additional pragmatist understanding of the creativity of action and that the most distinctive contributions of pragmatism to radical demo...read more
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The Pragmatic Movement in American Philosophy
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Creative democracy - The task still before us
TL;DR: Dewey's vision of la democratie is revealed in this article, where the author argues that the menace de la montee du nazisme and des attaques croissantes de l'idee meme de democratie are a cause of his concern.