Pragmatism and Social Hope: Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts

Judith M. Green

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November, 2008
Cloth, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14458-2
$40.00 / £27.50

Acknowledgments

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. The Continuously Planning City: Imperatives and Examples for Deepening Democracy

7. The Hope of Democratic Living: Choosing Active Citizen Participation for Preferable Global Futures

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Political Philosophy
• Political Theory

About the Author

Judith M. Green is associate professor of philosophy and codirector of women's studies at Fordham University. She specializes in social and political philosophy, pragmatism, Africana philosophy, and feminist theory. She also serves as a consultant on citizen participation in urban planning. Her previous book was Deep Democracy: Community, Diversity, and Transformation.

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