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Pragmatism and Social Hope: Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts
November, 2008
Cloth, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14458-2
$40.00
/ £27.50
"Pragmatism and Social Hope is an important contribution. Judith M. Green revives a strand of American pragmatism that was evident in the progressive movements of the first decades of the twentieth century but has, for the most part, been dormant through successive periods of positivism, radicalism, and postmodernism (together with its cousin, neopragmatism). Her book demonstrates how a robust version of pragmatism can affect the lives of human beings and their communities." — Larry Hickman, professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University
"Pragmatism and Social Hope is an important contribution. Judith M. Green revives a strand of American pragmatism that was evident in the progressive movements of the first decades of the twentieth century but has, for the most part, been dormant through successive periods of positivism, radicalism, and postmodernism (together with its cousin, neopragmatism). Her book demonstrates how a robust version of pragmatism can affect the lives of human beings and their communities." — Larry Hickman, professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University
"The best critique of Richard Rorty's politics from a fellow pragmatist and a fine application of John Dewey's political theory to contemporary issues. Deepening Democracy was a very impressive book, and Pragmatism and Social Hope is a great follow-up." — John Shook, vice president for research and senior research fellow, Center for Inquiry Transnational