Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey

Jim Garrison - Editor

Description

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.

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Introduction
Reconstructing Democracy and Recontextualizing Deweyan Pragmatism
Jim Garrison

1. The Political Philosophy of Pragmatism
James Campbell

2. Dr. Dewey's Deeply Democratic Metaphysical Therapeutic for the Post-9/11 American Democratic Disease: Toward Cultural Revitalization and Political Reinhabitation
Judith Green

3. Democracy and Education after Dewey—Pragmatist Implications for Constructivist Pedagogy
Kersten Reich

4. Dewey's Pluralism Reconsidered—Pragmatist and Constructivist Perspectives on Diversity and Difference
Stefan Neubert

5. Evolutionary Naturalism, Logic, and Lifelong Learning: Three Keys to Dewey's Philosophy of Education
Larry A. Hickman

6. Thinking Desire: Taking Perspectives Seriously
Charlene Haddock Seigfried

7. A Pragmatist Approach to Emotional Expression and the Construction of Gender Identity
Jim Garrison

8. Moral Norms and Social Inquiry
Hans Seigfried

List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Pragmatism

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 20 août 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791477809
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey

Pragmatism and Interactive Constructivism in the Twentyfirst Century

EDITED BY Jim Garrison

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reconstructing democracy, recontextualizing dewey : pragmatism and interactive constructivism in the twenty-first century / [edited by] Jim Garrison p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–7914–7545–4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Pragmatism. 2. Dewey, John, 1859–1952. 3. Constructivism (Philosophy) 4. Democracy. I. Garrison, Jim, 1951–

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We dedicate this book to our dear friend and colleague, the late Hans Seigfried, whose enthusiasm we remember with gratitude and a great sense of loss.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

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Reconstructing Democracy and Recontextualizing Deweyan Pragmatism Jim Garrison

The Political Philosophy of Pragmatism James Campbell

Dr. Dewey’s Deeply Democratic Metaphysical Therapeutic for the Post-9/11 American Democratic Disease: Toward Cultural Revitalization and Political Reinhabitation Judith Green

Democracy and Education after Dewey— Pragmatist Implications for Constructivist Pedagogy Kersten Reich

Dewey’s Pluralism Reconsidered— Pragmatist and Constructivist Perspectives on Diversity and Difference Stefan Neubert

Evolutionary Naturalism, Logic, and Lifelong Learning: Three Keys to Dewey’s Philosophy of Education Larry A. Hickman

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Chapter 6

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A Pragmatist Approach to Emotional Expression and the Construction of Gender Identity Jim Garrison

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Chapter 8

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Thinking Desire: Taking Perspectives Seriously Charlene Haddock Seigfried

Moral Norms and Social Inquiry Hans Seigfried

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Index

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List of Contributors

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Chapter 7

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Part of chapter 8 appeared earlier inDewey’s Logical Theory: New Studies and Interpretations, 2002, edited by F. Thomas Burke, D. Micah Hester, and Robert B. Talisse. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, and is reprinted with the permis- sion of the publisher, Vanderbilt University Press.

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